About the artwork
Kukkolo (peep-show) installation reveals 400 selected images that were created between 2007 to 2009 in a private encounter.
The images were created, destroyed, and created again on the most sensitive canvas - the female skin, with all its delicacy, colours, textures and marks carved on it by life. Each artwork lasted for a few days, some only for a few hours, before fading away like scars of healing wounds - to be replaced by other momentary marks of emotions.
Kukkolo aims to create a dialogue between the onlookers' fantasies and ideas of the feminine myth, and the current feminine reality with all its painful conquests and "watched liberty".
We are being offered as presents; humble Pandoras, blamed for all victories and weaknesses, held eternally responsible for opening our own boxes of truth wherein human weakness collides with the struggle to be true and the constant demand to be better, to be another.
About the festival
BAC! 2009. PANDORAS'B (Women/art/now)
A MATTER OF WOMEN
This year's festival - BAC! 09 Pandora's box - will present the work of key figures from a generation of women artists who are somehow involved in fighting for women's role in art, in order to discover new paradigms of creation. It offers a unique, referential opportunity to explore the international women's visual arts scene.
Unlike other exhibitions on a similar theme, most of them under the auspices of feminism or social criticism of difference and gender discrimination, BAC! shrugs off stereotypes to present a fresh, dynamic, motivating vision of the links between gender and the world of art, using humour, irony and divergence as its principal instruments.
