iPAC Padiglione d'Arte ContemporaneaPorta Venezia / Palestro
Project Room | Francesco Clerici e Khaoula Matri - La femme qui marche
This exhibition has ended.
Visual-anthropology project on sub-Saharan women's migratory journeys in North Africa and the violence of forced immobility. Free entry.
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Nobody in this work shows their face. The women Francesco Clerici and Khaoula Matri met on the migration routes through Tunisia are kept out of frame for their own safety. Instead you get landscapes, objects, everyday gestures and places people pass through, while the women's recorded voices do the telling.
The title means "the woman who walks": someone who keeps walking without really getting anywhere. Matri, an anthropologist in Sousse, calls this state being "en suspens", and the piece is built around it from photography, video, sound recordings and testimony. There is no departure and no arrival, only waiting, interrupted journeys and disappearances.
Come ready to listen more than look. Entry is free, it closes on 25 October, and PAC is open until 22:30 on Thursdays. RI-SCATTI, photographs by migrant and refugee women, runs in the same building over the same dates.
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You want portraits or a story with an ending: no faces are shown and no arrival is told.
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- PAC Padiglione d'Arte ContemporaneaStefano Stabile / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Furla Series – Shilpa Gupta. One Palm Closer to the SkyCourtesy of GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
- Piero Portaluppi: l'arte del disegnoCourtesy of Villa Necchi Campiglio
- Un Tiziano per MilanoCourtesy of Museo Poldi Pezzoli
- GAM Galleria d'Arte ModernaStefano Stabile / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Bagatti ValsecchiMelancholia~itwiki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Villa Necchi CampiglioSailko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- Museo Poldi PezzoliPaolobon140 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0