Silvia Margaria
ANTHOLOGIA

Description

The book illustrates the attempt to give shape in an iconic, poetic and allusive way to the biographical, existential, political and cultural dimension of five illustrious women: Adelaide Aglietta, Isa Bluette, Amalia Guglielminetti, Giorgina Levi, Emilia Mariani. Five exemplary female figures of the twentieth century, who fought for rights and emancipation. Using the languages ​​of art and contemporaneity, Silvia Margaria carries out an exercise in public history, aimed at learning about the existential, political and human biography of five exemplary Turin figures for the struggle for women’s emancipation and the conquest of human rights. The 34 photos that make up the project are the result of a selection from the hundreds that Silvia Margaria shoots in 2015, after having chosen to investigate the female question from a very particular point of view: she analyzes the life of the flowers placed on the graves of the five buried women at the Monumental Cemetery of Turin. The urgency of the artist, in which personal emotions and the almost daily documentary action intersect, is to return the research on the struggle for emancipation through an artistic path that crosses the need to remember and the inevitable realization. of oblivion with the passage of time.