EXISTING AS A WOMAN. ART AS HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL REFLECTION
Wednesday, July 2, 6:00 PM
Galleria Borghese
A conversation with Francesco Freddolini, Francesca Gallo, and Laura Iamurri
This event explores the themes of the exhibition in light of the speakers’ academic research, spanning modern and contemporary art, in a dialogue that investigates the political value of art.
Francesco Freddolini is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests include the history of sculpture in the long seventeenth century, the history of collecting, and transcultural artistic exchanges on a global scale between 1500 and 1850.
Francesca Gallo teaches Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University of Rome, where she offers a course titled From Orientalism to Postcolonialism, focused on the work of visual artists. She has published essays on these topics and, in 2020, edited issue no. 6 of the scholarly journal From the European South on anti-colonialism in Italian art from the 1960s to the present. The proceedings of the conference she curated—on visual imaginaries related to Third-Worldism and postcolonial thought in 1980s–1990s Italy—will be published by Silvana Editoriale in fall 2025. Her other research interests include Italian Neo-Avant-Gardes, performative practices, and video art.
Laura Iamurri teaches Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University. She has published studies on the relationship between contemporary art, historiography, and art criticism in the 20th century. Among other projects, she edited the publication of Autoritratto (Milan, 2010) and, together with Lara Conte and Vanessa Martini, the collection Scritti sull’arte by Carla Lonzi (Milan, 2012).
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