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The Macro Rome Museum exhibits until October 30th the video art projection She Devil which was exhibited in the study of Stefania Miscetti of Rome with great success. The conceptual proposal is part of the fourth edition of She Devil video, which was exhibited beforehand to curators and artists.
The exhibition is organized by the Political Center Councillor ship and Cultural History Superintendency of Cultural Assets of Rome.
She Devil Video art is named after a character created by Marvel Comics, an American publishing company of comic heroes that have marked the imagination of several generations, both by the aesthetics of the superheroes, as well as the transmission of social values. Marvel Comics is the creator of Spiderman, Fantastic Four and other superheroes who are part of contemporary culture through its development in media such as television, magazines and films.
The video takes the character´s name Shanna She Devil, a female version of Tarzan, created in 1972 and adapts the title of the film by Susan Siedelman from 1989. Siedelman was the first American independent filmmaker as well as being the director of the pilot of the hit series Sex and The City.
With these elements, they support the work and research the representation of femininity and the stress that these representations cause in our daily life, versus reality, where the body is the repository of the representation of individual and collective experiences.
In this issue She-Devil has selected works by artists from Italy, Africa, Asia and America working and researching topics such as women, power and vulnerability, a study based on identity, the representation of the female image, the weight of tradition, The body and the role assumed by women in different contexts.
They take different expressive languages ??and move them to the subjectivity expressing policies on contemporary culture and symbolic representations that different media give us on womanhood
One of the artists invited to She Devil is Martha Rosler, born in New York, educated at Brooklyn College and at the University of California. Rosler makes videos, installations, and photo-text and has also created important theoretical works on art and the public sphere. Her main concern relates to the representations of women in the public eye and media and the problems that arose with urban growth, a product of capitalist speculation, resulting in pollution. To do this, shes takes language used formally, always in conflict with content and reality, to reveal the contradictions and account for a global cacophony that breaks the necessary human condition to live differently
She Devil is an interesting experience to understand how images are constructed around the female figure, which forces us to think about masculinity and the deformation between reality and messages built from power.
More info at: http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/she_devil
Nancy Guzman
So if you are in apartments in Rome and are interested in these debates, to come to the Marco Museum and enjoy this visual research.
Translated by: Marc
