Love and Kisses Being a
woman costs plenty , since ever. From the pyre, bargaining chip, war prize: nowadays society
certainly isn’t more violent compared to the past , only have sensibility and
attention to the problem been changed . Today we can denounce, we have
means and Institutions which may protect them . However it’s not like that where
war is going on. And the price paid by those who couldn’t or can’t denounce is
visible, tremendous, tragic, in the eyes of those who went or are going through
the rest of their own lives aware of being unable to redeem themselves socially and personally because undergoing was and still is , in many
Countries, a shame and normal. Violence breaks and throws our dreams,
expectations, ambitions,.…our future upside down. And only chocked half words
remain in the heart, in the throat of those who are short of time and don’t
know which future they are waiting .
The work Love and Kisses in
fact deals right with the problem of
violence against women during the war. From world wars till nowadays , sexual
violence is a war within the war, but it
goes by silently and seems to be as much tacitly accepted as an inevitable
consequence.
Once again
the woman is not considered as a human
being but only goods, a means to humiliate our enemy. By ravishing mothers and daughters,
they ravish dignity, identity, one’s own bloodline. Above all, it’s once again
the man’s supreme power pose, under each flag , on the woman always object of a
violent submission , every time this comes possible. A report of the united
nations of 1998 about sexual violence and military conflicts reveals that,
historically soldiers considered rapist as rightful spoils of war. And even
when the dramatic events occurred to women started to be taken into
consideration only with the aim to calculate the damages caused by the
occupying troops, point out the violence suffered by the community and not to focus on the very severe physical
and psychological injuries suffered by each individual. On the contrary the
video tackles the subject with an absolutely intimate approach and, at the same
time, almost bitterly sarcastic; just
starting with the title the accent stresses the deep personal, intimate,
tragedy faced with general indifference.
The installation is composed of a main video Love and Kisses and a series of original blank-and-white postcards of the countries thrown
into confusion along the years by the second world war up to now through
several conflicts which have deeply marked the history of each, but above all the History
of women. From Ciociaria, to Vietnam, from Congo, to Bosnia and Syria … up to
Japan. Other three different videos with
the title Identity are part of the
work, images of slow and repetitive, every day movements are occasionally
stopped sharply with historic film clips of dances, happiness,…..beaches where the idea of excitement, confusion …thoughtlessness
, images far from the inner tragedies told.
Love and kisses frame da video
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