Between January and March 2025, WASTED returns to Friuli Venezia Giulia and brings to Trieste and Gradisca d’Isonzo eight biting voices of the contemporary art scene.
In the symbolic locations of the cross-border area, female artists will discuss some of the hot topics of today’s women’s issues, tracing paths and connections, hypothesising antidotes and new keys to interpreting the phenomena of gender inequality.
A diffuse exhibition, conceptually divided into four chapters, presenting visions and suggestions from the world of art on the relationship between man-woman-nature-society, activating circuits of critical thought on iconography and visual representation, on the themes of the gaze and the body in relation to society, tracing and suggesting those collective cultural paths that can shorten the distance between genders.
A series of appointments, performances and talks, with thematic insights into project research, which open up to new audiences through content-based collaborations.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS CALENDAR
Friday 17 January 2025 | 10:00 – 12:00
Sala Veruda, Trieste
Preview of the exhibition with the press and special guided tour (open to the press, school classes and booked groups)
Saturday 25 January 2025 | 9:00
Friulian Museum of Natural History, Udine
De-colonising the museum: workshop for cultural workers, parents, educators with artist Leyla Degan.
Booking required at prenotazioni@iodeposito.org
Thursday 30 January 2025 | 18.00
Starting from Sala Veruda, Trieste
TIDÉ – REFORMATION / Multiple Body Walk / with Abigaïl Sia
Reservations welcome at prenotazioni@iodeposito.org
Walking to capture the flow of history, walking to reflect on the impact of racial and gender violence on the body and mind. With TIDÉ Reformation, walking becomes an act of healing and reconstruction, transforming wounds into strength and silences into visibility.
The performance begins at Sala U. Veruda, in a musical and sensory immersion where the artist shares a fragment of TIDÉ’s states of being. A journey between pain, resistance, and hope.
Then, the walk continues through the streets of Trieste, where her passage questions collective narratives.
Wrapped in a second plastic skin, both armor and mirror of societal scars, Tidé traces a path of resistance. At the intersection of the intimate and the political, this moving work celebrates the vital force of those who walk for human rights.
Abigaïl Sia (1990, France), a French-Ivorian and Italian multidisciplinary artist, develops an artistic practice that fuses performance and activism. Her work focuses on the experience of racialised individuals in a post-colonial society, with a particular interest in invisibility and the consequences of the impact of systemic violence on bodies, psyches and metabolisms, which she addresses through a de-colonial approach.
Her performances also explore the duality of emotional and behavioural states, as well as the transformation of body and mind in response to trauma. She places ‘embodied resistance’ at the centre of her work.
Saturday 1 February 2025 | 11 a.m.
From Polo Culturale di Casa Maccari, Gradisca d’Isonzo
Preview of the exhibition with authorities and journalists, and urban performance by Abigaïl Sia
Wrapped in plastic film, the artist wanders around the city. The wrapping stiffens her movements and characterises her by the fact that she is objectified and degradable: a concrete representation of all those agents that impede the woman’s freedom of movement, which is even more brutally restrained when she is afro-descended.
The action is a ‘mise en forme’ of prejudice, impersonated by the suffocating envelopment that envelops the artist and accompanies her everywhere, squeezing movement and breath. Surprising in her direct and provocative language, during the performance, the artist, seated in the cafés of the main via Ciotti, on the city buses, or walking through the city streets, seeks cohabitation with a system that manipulates her living space and limits her movement through transparent walls: a metaphor of the female experience, equated with racial experience: it is easy to perceive the danger of suffocation, but at the same time it is possible to identify a movement that allows one to subvert this condition of limitation from within.
The artist’s body symbolises metamorphosis and awareness, in a necessary yet challenging skin-to-skin dance with the plastic fleece of disparity.
The ‘walking performance’ lasts for about an hour, after which it will return to Casa Maccari for its finale. All participants will be invited to take part in a relaxed and informal talk with the artist during the opening toast, to exchange impressions and reflections.
Participation in the performance is free of charge, reservation is recommended at prenotazioni@iodeposito.org
Boys, girls, boys and girls are welcome.
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Carinarnica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
A day of free bilingual guided tours, dedicated to Marta Lodola’s video-work ‘Covered’.
Reservations welcome at prenotazioni@iodeposito.org
EXHIBITION PLACES, TIMES AND ENTRIES:
TRIESTE
Veruda Hall of Palazzo Costanzi, Piazza Piccola 2, Trieste
Every day, from 18 January to 2 February 2025
10.00 – 13.00 e 17.00 – 20.00
Free Entrance
GRADISCA D’ISONZO
Polo Culturale di Casa Maccari, via della Campagnola 18, Gradisca d’Isonzo (GO)
From 1 February to 30 March 2025
Opening hours
Tue 10:30 – 12:30
Wed 16:00 – 19:30
Thu 10:30 – 12:30 and 16:00 – 19:30
Fri 16:00 – 19:30
Sat 10:30 – 12:30 and 15:30 – 19:00
Sun 10:00 – 12:30 and 15:30 – 19:00
Free admission
Free guided tours available on site and by appointment, for information and special requirements: prenotazioni@iodeposito.org
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
The exhibition links its activities to creative and practical workshops, on the themes of interest in the exhibition, specially designed for children aged 10+ by Comfort Zone art therapists at:
- Atelier at the Gradisca d’Isonzo Secondary School of I.C. della Torre-Verni
- Aggregative spaces in Fogliano Redipuglia and Mariano del Friuli
- Girls‘ and Boys’ Town Council of Romans d’Isonzo, at the Casa Maccari Cultural Centre
