WOMEN’S ART POWER 2025
WEAVING DREAMS, LIVING TIME
Curated by Dores Sacquegna
Palmieri Foundation, Lecce
WEAVING DREAMS. LIVING TIME curated by Dores Sacquegna opens Saturday 8 March at 7:00 pm at the Fondazione Palmieri in Vico dei Sotterranei in Lecce. The exhibition organized by Primo Piano LivinGallery Progetti & Servizi per l’Arte Contemporanea and under auspices of Lecce Municipality, can be visited until March 21. Partnership with WWTS – World Women Talent System, Florida ( Italian American organization of women entrepreneurs). Drink and tastings welcome offered by Salento’s farms of Contino Wines and Ferrara. Bilingual catalogue on display.
THE EXHIBITION AND THE ARTISTS
What is life if not sewing dreams, unravelling knots, weaving stories…
The thirty-first edition of WOMEN’S ART POWER contemporary art exhibition entitled WEAVING DREAMS, LIVING TIME features nineteen female artists from twelve countries around the world, whose works translate into the thought of trans-forming and trans-figuring and unifies opposing concepts such as immobility and flow, matter and the ineffable in defining both boundaries and our very existence. During opening day, the performance “Oui. L’appel de l’intime, l’appel du monde” (Yes, the call of the intimate, the call of the world) by French artist Sandra Detourbet, followed by “Sound no Shielding” by m° Alberto Nick Bolettieri in homage to the works by Australian-born, Italian binational special guest artist Virginia Ryan, present in Lecce during opening day.
Virginia Ryan was born in Australia and she is an Italian citizen since 1982. She has exhibited at the Intramoenia Extrart project by Giusy Caroppo in the castles of Puglia under the artistic direction by Achille Bonito Oliva in Muro Leccese, at Macro Museum in Rome, Venice Biennale, Pino Pascali Foundation in Polignano a Mare, the Dakar Biennale to name a few. In Ghana she co-founded the influential FCA Foundation of Contemporary Art. On display are the shield/drum installations from the series of “Forms of Protection” and the collaborative video “Sanctuary” (with musician Oliver Ryan) filmed in the Balmoral Forest in Australia, a place originally inhabited by Aboriginal peoples. Her works evoke dreamscapes and masterfully blend elements of traditional and multicultural design with contemporary flair. Between memory and loss, between the ways of weaving and transforming, Ryan conveys messages of peace, protection and reconciliation with the earth.
In addition to her, twelve artists already known in Italy to have collaborated with Primo Piano LivinGallery but also for exhibiting their works in important kermesses such as the Venice Biennale, Florence Biennale, Chang Kil-Hwan Museum in South Korea, Milan Triennale, Glenbow Museum in Alberta, Art Basel, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tate Modern in London, San Diego Museum in California.
Exhibiting artists: Bikkel Artist (The Netherlands), Sandra Detourbet (France), Cristina Maria Geana (Romania), Sonia Giavitto (Italy), Pnina Granirer (Canada), Dena Haden (US), Kohlene Hendrickson (US), Maria Luisa Imperiali (Italy), Nena Lang Cirkovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Nicole Martinelli (US), Sara Mckenzie (US), Christine Palamidessi (US), Angel Jiaqi Qin (China), Margot Reding-Schroeder (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), Virginia Ryan (Australia), Deniz Sak (Turkey),Tama Takahashi (US), Kristina Trudorudo (Russia), Claudia von Boch (Canada).
WOMEN’S ART POWER 2025
“WEAVING DREAMS, LIVING TIME”
Curated by Dores Sacquegna
From 8 to 21 march 2025 – Palmieri Foundation, Vico Dei Sotterranei, Lecce
Open every day with free entry from 4:30pm to 8:30pm (Mornings by appointment)
Tel: +39 349 37 20659 | primopianogallery@gmail.com
Artsper Exhibition here
