Video by Marco Gerosa
2016
Live performance by Marta Lodola, duration 30 min. Materials: 80 candles engraved with the names of women died of femminicide in Italy between January and September 2016, matches, water.
Event Opening of the exhibition “Ophelia” The Exhibition, curated by Luisa Catucci, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin.
Gender-based violence is something inherent in our social sphere. The government provisions seem not able to embank the problem and offer an effective aid.
Between January and September 2016, 80 women died in Italy because of feminicide. A woman dies every two days and, many women suffer constantly from violence without knowing how to ask for help, or to whom.
There are no effective punishments for the aggressors and the murderes remaining un-imprisoned even after the reports, being a constant threat for every woman asking for help.
The laws don’t guarantee a real protection, and in situations of home violence there are often dynamic for which is difficult to find a way out from this condition.
I remember their lives, their light and their vitality, interrupted by murderous hands. My body is a simple medium, an offer to their spirits.