FIRST PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF ANDREA BOWERS IN ITALY
Moving in Space without Asking Permission is Andrea Bowers’ first solo exhibition in Italy.
Curated by Bruna Roccasalva, the exhibition offers an immersive experience within the artist’s work and her commitment to the fight for gender equality and women’s emancipation.
personal exhibition of Andrea Bowers in Italy
The Moving in Space without Asking Permission exhibition is part of a broader reflection on feminism that Bowers has been pursuing for some time, and focuses on the relationship between feminism and the body, with an eye both to the present and to the history of our country.
Andrea Bowers’ works always start from research on the context in which he works and from the exploration of the social fabric.
In this case, the Milan exhibition starts from the artist’s confrontation with some Italian feminist experiences of today, in particular with the work of the philosopher and activist Alessandra Chiricosta who studies and teaches the exercise of martial arts as a tool for bodily self-awareness. and a break with gender stereotypes.
The project was also born in response to the specificities of the GAM exhibition context: a museum whose collection refers to the historical period between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the women’s emancipation movement in Italy was taking its first steps.
Through iconic works and new productions, Andrea Bowers’ first solo exhibition in Italy testifies to the artist’s great linguistic versatility, restoring the importance of a research in which political activism and artistic practice are interconnected.
INFORMATION ON THE FIRST PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF ANDREA BOWERS IN ITALY
Furla Series – Andrea Bowers. Moving in Space without Asking Permission is the fourth edition of the Furla Seriesproject, and is the upshot of collaboration between Fondazione Furla and GAM: a partnership undertaken in 2021 with the exhibition by Nairy Baghramian and recently renewed for the staging of the upcoming events in the cycle.
FURLA SERIES
ANDREA BOWERS. MOVING IN SPACE WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION
curated by Bruna Roccasalva
Promoted by Fondazione Furla and GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
September 15 – December 18, 2022
Furla Series is the project cycle that since 2017 has engaged Fondazione Furla in the creation of exhibitions in collaboration with major Italian art institutions, with an all-female program designed to valorize and showcase women’s fundamental contribution to contemporary culture.