The book collects the works by more than fifty Italian women artists, recounting their way of living the world in different historical and social contexts. Conceived as an open investigation into the present, the project Io dico Io – I say I catches fundamental issues that have crossed and still cross contemporary feminisms: it draws alliances and affinities, weaves likenesses and symbolic relationships, creates intergenerational dialogues leaving chronologies aside.

Artists: Carla Accardi, Pippa Bacca, Elisabetta Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Irma Blank, Renata Boero, Monica Bonvicini, Benni Bosetto, Chiara Camoni, Ludovica Carbotta, Lisetta Carmi, Monica Carocci, Gea Casolaro, Daniela De Lorenzo, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Federica Di Carlo, Rä di Martino, Bruna Esposito, Cleo Fariselli, Jacky Fleming, Linda Fregni Nagler, Silvia Giambrone, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Beatrice Meoni, Marisa Merz, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Marzia Migliora, Maria Morganti, Liliana Moro, Alek O., Marinella Pirelli, Paola Pivi, Anna Raimondo, Carol Rama, Marta Roberti, Suzanne Santoro, Marinella Senatore, Ivana Spinelli, Alessandra Spranzi, Grazia Toderi, Tatiana Trouvé, Francesca Woodman

Rome, La Galleria Nazionale, February - June 2021

Contents

Introduction

Io dico Io – I say I
Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte, Paola Ugolini

Installation View

Essays

Io dico Io – I say I
Paola Ugolini

An Ever-Going Adventure
Lara Conte

The House, the Museum, the Archive, the Studio
Cecilia Canziani

Aloud
Massimo Mininni

Cyberfeminists and Other Bad Girls
Rosi Braidotti

The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
Annarosa Buttarelli

Vital Air. Gestures of Feminist Aesthetics
Linda Bertelli

Self-Display. On Reflexivity and Self-Representation
Barbara Carnevali

You See Yourself in It: Notes on Self-Portraiture and the Spaces in Between
Anna Gorchakovskaya

Beyond Ghosts
Francesca Palmieri

The Joy of Things
Chiara Zamboni

A Personal Story
Maria Grazia Chiuri

Bewilderment Is my Proof
Giovanna Coltelli

Recounting Means Multiplying
Maura Gancitano

Words As Individual’s Identity Act
Vera Gheno