The celebration of female strength and the beauty of women to counter femicide. This is the message that the scheduled ‘Innamòrati di Te’ event wants to give in Rome at the Pavart Art Gallery. “For almost ten years Codere Italia a multinational reference in the legal gaming sector, is committed to always keeping a spotlight on the debate and the fight against gender violence – she explains Imma Romano, director of Institutional Relations of Codere Italia and Ambassador of the States General of Women-on this occasion we want to propose art and beauty as keys to raising public awareness and inviting people to become an active part of an important cultural process”.
Art alone will not solve the drama of violence against women but it can be a means to inspire concrete actions and support organizations and movements. “Culture and creativity are key tools for building meaning, for active citizenship, for community – he underlines Gioia Farnocchia, councilor for Cultural Policies, Sports Policies, Promotion of Citizen Wellbeing, Gender Policies and Equal Opportunities of the XII Municipality of Rome –. To fight against gender violence, the first thing needed is the construction of a new Weltanschauung, a new vision of the world that finds its roots in a collective culture that promotes gender equality, respect and valorization of diversity and equal opportunities. This is why I am very happy to participate in this initiative, which places writing and images as threads in a plot aimed at the positive reappropriation of the image of the self, with which we fall (re)in love through art and words. , in a journey that is both intimate and public. Beauty will save us, if we know how to protect it, enhance it and create it.”
“Through art it is possible to change the world – he declares Velia Littera gallery owner and art expert – because it has the power to influence people and make them reflect to seek a deeper vision of life.” Many art forms, including painting, sculpture, music, theater and literature, have always been used to address issues related to violence against women and to inspire social change and eliminate gender stereotypes harmful and promote gender equality. It is important that the art, used in this context, is sensitive and respectful and that it aims to promote awareness and awareness of how a profound change in collective thinking is necessary to allow all women to live free from the fear of violence.
“In my watercolors I tried to evoke the physical and mental posture of a woman who suffers violence, both physical and verbal – she says the artist Barbara Lo Faro-. The physical attitude is almost always refuge, crouching, turning in on oneself, in silence, in solitude and often in shame. Through my works, which almost always describe the female figure, I always try to explore and celebrate women and their feelings. As far as possible I try to contribute, through my artistic language, to raising awareness and supporting initiatives that enhance the beauty of women as such”.
“Art can hardly remain neutral in the face of reality, because every artist with his work always reveals a critical vision of the world,” he adds. the artist Carola
machine- Unfortunately, today’s news events force us to deal with an alarming increase in violence against women. And it is against this form of intolerable violence that I want to express my anger and pain. Here then are the isolated plastic elements that protrude from the surface and those tied by a metal wire, the color black like the abyss, the red that screams, the blue that frees the spirit and consciences, everything becomes symbol and meaning, in the hope that art itself contributes to that cultural and emotional evolution which is the only antidote to the brutality of ignorance.
Violence against women is also told through the pages of the book “Don’t call it love”, written by the journalist Angela Rossi with the preface by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano. “A collection of fifteen female voices. Fifteen women who no longer have a voice because they are victims of barbaric violence, fifteen lives united by a common thread of fear, terror, submission. By writing their stories, I wanted to give, for a moment, a voice to those who will no longer be able to speak. Unfortunately, these are all stories that happened in reality. Fifteen monologues in which the unfortunate young people tell their lives which, even if geographically distant, are all woven from the same plot of pain and humiliation. Stories told in the hope of reaching those who experience similar situations first-hand and saying that they can do it, they can get their life back.”
Valentina Fazio, president of the Social Commission of Munich adds: “I decided to read the monologues in this book to give voice to these women, women who could represent all of us and even myself. In reality this book is not just a collection of stories but it is the same women who first tell people and regain the space that violence has stolen from their body and spirit”.
After Rome, the traveling project “In love with you” by Codere Italia will stop in Parma. The event, free and open to the public, is on Tuesday 17 October at 4.30 pm at the San Paolo Complex – Vicolo dell’Asse, 5.