Opening 14th of November at 5pm until 18th of December. Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 5pm-20pm
In Italian, pupa means a doll, and it can refer to a real doll or a woman/girl. But Pupa is also the title of a new project by the Italian, Roma-based artistic duo Grossi Maglioni: “Born within the project, which investigates the representation of women and motherhood in contemporary culture, Pupa marks the beginning of a new research that links the sweet to the idea of love and female sexuality through an investigation of Italian popular traditions. In this project, which includes workshops, installations and a video, we want to reflect on the sexual models handed down within the patriarchal family through the generations, on pleasure, folklore and myths of femininity related to ritual food and the earth.”
PUPA present a whole new body of works by Grossi Maglioni, a workshop led by the artists, and a talk series with Clovis Maillet, Lex Brown and Sheila Pepe. The show and talk series borrow the title of Grossi Maglionis videowork present in the show, to engage in a wider reflection about the (female but not only) bodies, their paradoxical relationshop to materiality and symbolism, their power to be born and die, to enjoy and to suffer, to be ineluctably one’s own and at the same time the intertwined flesh of all members of society. PUPA is a show curated by Dorothée Dupuis, ex-pensionnaire 2022-2023 at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. Dupuis is a curator, publisher and art historian based in Mexico City. She is the Director and Founder Temblores Publicaciones.
GROSSI MAGLIONI (Francesca Grossi and Vera Maglioni, Rome, 1982) began their collaboration in 2006. Their work is mostly focused within performance, installation and educational practices. Their work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and academic institutions, including: Palais Carli, Marseille; Fondazione Baruchello, Rome; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; Picture Gallery, Kaunas; <rotor> center for contemporary art, Graz: Kunsthalle Bratislava; Istituto Svizzero, Rome; AlbumArte, Rome; American Academy, Rome; Viafarini, Milan; MACRO, Rome; Verkstad för konst, Norrköping; Konsthall museum, Vasa
Talk series curated by Dorothée Dupuis: November 16, 2024 at 12pm
Grossi Maglioni’s workshop: December 14, 2024
Queering Rome Tour, November 23, 2024
