iPAC Padiglione d'Arte ContemporaneaPorta Venezia / Palestro
RI-SCATTI. Prima che sia notte
This exhibition has ended.
Photography by and about migrant and refugee women: displacement, motherhood and resilience, curated by Diego Sileo. Free entry.
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Maya K. spent years building a career as a lawyer before she reached Italy from Syria via Canada. In her photographs, a blazer stands for that career: left behind, not quite given up.
You walk into 150 photographs by 23 migrant and refugee women supported by Milan's Welcome Center, shown with their texts and interviews. Volunteer professionals from RI-SCATTI taught them in a workshop, then left them to choose what to show and what to keep out of the frame. Cloé Villar de Souza, working from home on Brazilian time, photographed the light in her flat; Arina, from Ukraine, shot friends at parties. The title comes from Reinaldo Arenas's memoir Before Night Falls.
Entry is free. The prints and catalogue are for sale, and the proceeds fund Milano Welcome's projects, with a focus on these women. PAC stays open until 22:30 on Thursdays. Upstairs in the Project Room, a video by Francesco Clerici and Khaoula Matri on sub-Saharan women's routes through North Africa runs alongside.
Look for
Maya K.'s blazer
Look for the blazer in her series, standing in for the law career she built before leaving Syria and hasn't fully let go of.
Cloé Villar de Souza's home light
Working remotely on Brazilian hours kept her mostly indoors, so her pictures study natural and artificial light in her own flat.
Arina's parties
Arina, from Ukraine, chose the brightest moments: friends' faces at parties and get-togethers.
Yasmine Fatih's search for home
Streets, faces and small details from Milan, photographed by a Moroccan woman looking for somewhere that feels like home.
Moran and Valeria
A mother and daughter from El Salvador took the course together, and their pictures come out of that shared time.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
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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