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The world saved by women, to paraphrase Elsa Morante, reflects
on spaces of freedom expressed in women’s everyday gestures.
Seven very misogynous “Maltese” proverbs were chosen to recount
a shifting over time of constricted, discriminatory postures.
Il mondo salvato dalle donne (The world saved by women) is
structured as gestural ‘ceremonies’ interpreted by women, taking
place during a walk along the cliffs of Ħaġar Qim.
Each centers around a proverb manipulated and turned inside-out
through actions generated by the women in concert with nature,
constructing forms of encounter in gestures that evoke friendship,
listening and resistance. As if in a sort of alchemical process, the
words of the proverbs come apart and are re-composed in gestures.
This nascent metabolism, simultaneously silent and emancipated,
unites nature and the body, gesture and place, choreography and
rite, emphasizing the urgent need to inhabit the world through
forms of listening and everyday invention.
ARTIST: Virgilio Sieni
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Franco la Cecla
PERFORMERS: Sara Accettura / Chiara Bellich / Jeanne Delattre / Aleksandra Konarska / Maria Lanfren / Catherine Limbada / Petra Mizzi / Federica Pettinato / Paola Prigolio / Maria Sammut