iMuseo Carlo BilottiVilla Borghese
States of Uncertain Domesticities
An international group show of around 30 works — video, paintings, sculpture and installations — exploring contemporary domesticity through a feminist, political and social lens, touching on housing, migration and environmental crisis.
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Selma Selman's mother was married at 13 and never had the girl's bedroom she wanted. Selman drew it from her mother's memories, real and imagined, and made it as a 3D print. Here, A Pink Room of Her Own is a four-and-a-half-minute video.
Alongside it are about 30 works by 26 artists on what home means now: care work and motherhood, domestic violence, houses lost to war and disaster, gentrification. The show reached Rome after Berlin and Brno, and takes its cue from Womanhouse, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro's 1972 feminist house project. You go from Luana Perilli's ants, printed from old entomology books, to a 2.45-metre piece of fabric and slippers by Thorsten Kirchhoff.
It's in the Aranciera, Villa Borghese's old orangery. Leave time for the videos: Kathryn Cornelius's Resolve alone runs nearly 12 minutes. Tickets are €7.50 (€6 reduced), free for Rome residents with ID and MIC card holders. Open Tuesday to Friday 10:00 to 16:00, weekends to 19:00, last entry 45 minutes before closing.
Look for
Selma Selman, A Pink Room of Her Own
A video about the girl's bedroom Selman's mother never had after a child marriage at 13, rebuilt from her memories as a 3D print.
Luana Perilli's ant prints
Three prints on rice paper taken from early-20th-century entomology books, showing ants as builders of a shared home.
Thorsten Kirchhoff, DIAL K FOR KIRCHHOFF
Look for the slippers: fabric and house shoes make up a piece 2.45 metres tall.
Inés Fontenla, Soledad
An installation of bricks and a mirror, titled with the Spanish word for solitude.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You're bringing young kids: works deal with domestic violence, war and a mother married at 13.
Free in the same building
- Andy Warhol: Madre e figlia, Tina e Lisa BilottiAndy Warhol's 1981 double portrait of Tina and Lisa Bilotti, the collector's wife and daughter, a pop-art highlight of the museum's Room 1.
- Giorgio de Chirico: Archeologi misteriosiGiorgio de Chirico's 1926 metaphysical painting of seated mannequin-archaeologists, a signature work of the Bilotti collection displayed in Room 2.
- Giorgio de Chirico: Ettore e AndromacaGiorgio de Chirico's bronze of the embracing mannequin-lovers Hector and Andromache, the one Bilotti sculpture installed outdoors beside the museum.
- Larry Rivers: Carlo con Dubuffet sullo sfondoLarry Rivers's 1994 cut-out portrait of collector Carlo Bilotti against a Dubuffet backdrop, recut along the figure and mounted like a life-size advertising figure in Room 1.
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Image credits
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- States of Uncertain DomesticitiesCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- La donazione Ennio CalabriaCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- Luigi & Iango. Corpi specialiCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- Museo Carlo BilottiKrzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Daderot via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo dell'Ara PacisCouncil, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Fondazione MemmoAndre P. Meyer-Vitali, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0