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artist in residence

Vanessa Safavi

Dolls and Goddesses
May / September 2021
opening: 15 and 16 may 2021

Solo exhibition of Vannessa Safavi (Lausanne, 1980) curated by Marco Tagliafierro.
Created during the artist's residency in the spaces of the farmhouse, the exhibition explores, with humour and a sense of provocation, gender stereotypes, analysing the sculptural possibilities of the representation of the body and questioning the relationship with illness, sexuality and identity.

The works presented in Dolls and Goddesses are the result of Safavi's theoretical and formal research into the role of women in Western society, with a particular focus on the figure of the woman artist.
In her work, Safavi analyses different aspects of the human condition, comparing them to particular unexpressed qualities of matter: her aim is to bring out the perpetuation of vital energy, of that primordial force proper to female nature, which in pre-Hellenic matriarchal society was venerated as the generator of life.

"I deal with the question of legitimacy and how the very definition of an object can be hijacked and become a subversive force against its original meaning" – says Vanessa Safavi – "It is interesting to witness that today a new generation of young women, extremely aware of the gender inequalities in today's and yesterday's society, are using these codes and aesthetics as a tool to proudly embody their new identity as women of the future."

. text by Marco Tagliafierro

. press release

I.D.E.A. Independent Domus Exhibiting Art
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Via Guglielmo Marconi 26
Agrate Conturbia (NO)

Visits by appointment by writing to federica@nicolettarusconi.com

  • Our Misfortunes raise Gold Coins in a Starless Night, (ex-voto 10), 2020. Glazed ceramic, variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist.

  • Our Misfortunes raise Gold Coins in a Starless Night, (ex-voto 10), 2020. Detail.

  • Our Misfortunes raise Gold Coins in a Starless Night, (ex-voto), 2020. Glazed ceramic, variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist.

  • Untitled (from the series Seins-choux), 2013-2020. Glazed ceramic, 23x14x12 cm. Courtesy the artist.

  • Da sinistra: Coral Pink, 2019. Glazed ceramic, 18x58 cm; Sailing Blue, 2018. Glazed ceramic, 18.5x70 cm. Exhibition view of "MILCH", Stalletta, Madulain, Switzerland.