Bibi Tomasi, Al cerchio delle tue mani
Presentation

May 22, 18:00-20:00. Rome
IUNO

With Cecilia Canziani, Co-Artistic Director of IUNO, art historian, curator
Linda Bertelli, Associate Professor in Aesthetics at IMT School Lucca
Giorgia Basch, Director of BilderAtlas

Program

We are delighted to invite you to a presentation of ours at IUNO – an independent curatorial project and research centre founded and directed by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni – about the photo book Al cerchio delle tue mani. Part of our Eight Poems by series, the book is a collection of previously unseen photographs of the meetings and communal life of the first Italian feminist groups, taken by the multifaceted author Bibi Tomasi.

Giorgia Basch, founder and director of BilderAtlas and curator of the book, and Linda Bertelli, Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, and author of the essay in the volume, with be in dialogue, with an introduction by Cecilia Canziani.

Topics of the conversation will include: the construction of the photo book, the value of re-publishing and reactivating archival materials from the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective's archive – with a critical reflection on the relationship between the archive and feminist memory, and on how archival practices can, or cannot, represent the counter-histories of excessive femininities. Finally, the meaning in the present of the affective relationships and the political friendships in Bibi Tomasi’s photographs. 

The presentation will take place within the context of the exhibition P.G.R - Per Grazia e Rivolta by artist Cynthia Montier, which is on display from IUNO until 30 May.