On February 21, 2024 at 5:30 pm,
the Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum will host
Ecce Domina Partenope curated by Maria Grazia Gargiulo and the visual artist Laura VdB Facchini, President of Wind Mill.
The central focus of the event will be Art Action with its protagonists: artists, writers,intellectuals, actresses…, who will express with their voice, their feelings, living, working, loving,studying and fulfilling themselves in this thousand-year-old city. They will bring their memories, symbols, objects, works, their personal point of view as women on the complexity of this wonderful city of Naples.
The Art Action Ecce Domina Partenope is part of the project DECLINAZIONE
FEMMINILE/MASCHILE for the Women Visual Artists Database, which aims to stimulate questions and reflections on being male with ECCE DOMINUS and the perceptions of stereotypes and roles and achievements of the female gender in society with ECCE DOMINA.
Domina and Dominus come from Domus, with original meanings such as home, family, placeof birth, school, metaphor of a common origin.
The Art Action Ecce Domina Partenope will become an Art Video curated by Laura VdB Facchini as a testimony of the performance event and will be included in the video series Ecce Domina.
The Talk will present the Women Visual Artists Database project, which involves the construction of a database conceived as an evolving archive dedicated to the work of international female artists, with a never-ending open call addressed to contemporary and twentieth-century visual artists. A non-profit project that combines the two objectives of WindMill: on the one hand the promotion of specific studies by Art Academies and Universities, made possible thanks to the cataloging and valorization of the works and biographical profiles of the artists; on the other, the creation of a community of artists who share the experience of this database as a living organism, intended to encourage exchanges of ideas and collaborations with the aim of placing the complexity of the female artistic experience at the center of the cultural debate.
