The project Photography, Art, Feminisms: History, Theories, and Practices of Resistance in Contemporary Visual Culture aims to establish a research group involving faculty members and researchers from Italian universities as well as from prominent international institutions and universities. Its goal is to foster scientific collaborations for the development and execution of specific research activities and projects.
The project focuses on the relationship between Photography, Art and Feminism in contemporary visual culture. Since the last decades of the twentieth century, thanks to the expansion of analytical tools favoured by cultural studies and gender studies, areas of study and research have progressively developed that focuse on new identities, and on new cultural and political demands. Among them, the role of women and their contribution to art and visual culture has been one of the most fertile and important ones. Within this new area of interest, the role and significance of women's photographic practices has, in turn, constituted a line of development in scientific studies, as well as in museum and curatorial initiatives.
The object of study of the research team will be the poetics, works and exhibitions that make up the fabric of the relationship among women, art and photography and, therefore, their explicit or potential contribution to the call for emancipation of the feminist gaze.
Photography, Contemporary art, Women, Feminism, Identity, Gender
Department of the Arts