Inspired and dedicated to the poetic power of the Women in Black (in 1988 in a square in Jerusalem, from the meeting of seven Israeli women who demonstrate every Friday for one hour in silence with placards reading “Stop the Occupation” enough to the military occupations of the Israeli government of the West Bank and Gaza, a wave was born that spread to twenty-four other cities, including Tel Aviv, Haifa, London, Amsterdam, New York, Rome. The DiN (Women in Black) movement became a symbol, a stimulus for the creation of women’s groups in different parts of the world, characterised by this desire to build peace and adopting its method of expression: present in body and soul, dressed in black, imposing themselves in silence and facing the gaze of the people. The art of communicating through silence.
Volo Nero
Video Performance Photo © 2011
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Video Exhibitions International Art Expo Festival Experimental Cinema Palazzo Ca’Zanardi Venezia 2014 | Papay Giro Night 2014 3rd International Contemporary Art | Videotage Hong Kong, Belgrade Art Fair Video Art Festival 2013 | Papay Giro Night 2013 3rd International Contemporary Art Festival Orkney Scotland | Aiva Angelholm international Video Art Festival Se 2012.
Performance
The art of silence: communicating by keeping silent
“Only later learned the art of silence. That useful weapon!. ” (women of Belgrade October 12, 1996)
“(…) a vision of a world that has the ability to choose and to change this company founded on oppression and on power, on the economic and social injustice. The desire to be protagonists of this change. ” (Luisa Morgantini)
Performance in Genoa, Venice, Guimaraes
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