Art
When the Towel Drops, Vol 1. - Digital Installation
Digital video projection, flourescent lights, chip foam mats, audio, paper documents // size variable
2019 | ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art) Milan, Italy | 29.11.2019 - 02.02.2020
The installation, curated by Claudia D’Alonzo, investigates the censored representation of women, femininity, and sexuality in Italian post-war cinema. It compiles and reveals hundreds of archival documents and film scenes that were removed from publicly screened cinema in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. By editing together scenes that were removed from films such as La Notte and Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni, or Brink of Life by Ingmar Bergman, When The Towel Drops Vol 1 I Italy traces a history of the institutional regimentation of the female body and desire.
Radha May is Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje and Nupur Mathur.
Radha May is Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje and Nupur Mathur.
