Art Curation Case Study: Exhibit Contemporary Feminine Identity
Pia Diamandis
In 2021, I co-curated a digital exhibition for Museo Salvatore Ferragamo titled ‘A Feminie Lexicon’. The exhibit was up on the Museum’s website from May 2022 - May 2023.
Home page of the digital exhibition on museo.ferragamo.com
The project received wide publication, including the front page of Vanity Fair Italia
Vanity Fair Italia spread
It was a rewarding project spent looking for and then working with eleven artists from around the world. Artists who tell their stories of what it means to consider themselves a feminine while belonging to different communities in different time zones.
I helped them share complex narratives about feminines who were queer, indigenous, Muslim, differently abled, navigating motherhood and traditional family structures, all while working as artists, sex workers, actors, and more.
I collaborated remotely with their galleries and managers, selecting artworks, and working together on contracts and filling out loan forms. Before writing the exhibit catalogue, website content, and designing its digital interface.
All eleven participating young international artists
Below are some of the exhibited works:
Sri Naura Paramita, 2021 by Alfiah Rahdini. Fiberglass and sand stone. Installation View at Jakarta Biennale 2021. Photo: Opang Darmawan. Courtesy of the artist and Jakarta Biennale 2021
Honor Your Queer and Trans Children Always, 2019 by Johanna Toruño. Digital poster. Courtesy of the artist
Still from Talking, 2022 by ChongYan Liu. Photo: Yadi Liu. Courtesy of the artist
Faster Than An Erection, detail by Reba Maybury. Installation view at Museo per l’Immaginazione Preventiva, MACRO 2021. Photo: Simon d’Exéa. Courtesy of the artist
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Posted May 11, 2023
Curated an exhibition on contemporary feminine identity, with 11 international artists (8 POCs) that includes also disabled, trans, and indigenous perspectives.
