On Friday 12 April 2024, Cappella Vantini is ready to reopen its doors to the public with the visual return of the relational art artistic project by La Chigi and Virginia Sartori "Tu che me guardi, io che me racconto". For the occasion, the artists will welcome visitors with a performance dedicated to the opening event. The event will be from 12 to 28 April 2024.
At the border between sculpture, performance and participatory art, La Chigi and Virginia Sartori have conceived and created a "woman to woman" path, but aimed at all audiences and all citizens.
The exhibition comes at the end of a shared process, which began in the summer of 2023 with an open invitation to women of different ages and backgrounds. About fifty have been involved, each of them "lending" their faces for the creation of a plaster cast within a setting inspired by an aesthetic centre, in this case of the soul. The basic idea is that of "care", the common thread of the entire project, which remained open until February 2024. At the end of the pose, a personal narrative addressed to other women was born.
Activating the characteristic elements of their own expressive languages – sculpture and performance for Virginia Sartori, installation and archival work for La Chigi – the artists then collected and transcribed excerpts from the free interviews, which together with the plaster casts will form the centrepiece of the exhibition at Cappella Vantini.
By observing the works and reading the testimonies on display, the deepest meaning of their research is captured: an invitation to make the symbolic gesture of taking off the mask, dedicating a moment of suspension from everyday life to elaborate an intimate message from the universal power.
"You who look at me, I who tell me" thus becomes a pretext to reflect on the very essence of femininity, ancestrally wrapped in mysteries that are revealed with delicacy and discretion, in order to build an archive and a collective fresco of being a woman today.
