“Dear love, can we possibly live a love relationship stripped of a property relationship?”

This sentence is found in a notebook by Marisa Licini, the artist’s mother. In a box, about forty film negatives and a thousand photos are carefully cataloged by year, place, and subject. These photographs, taken in the late seventies, capture moments of private life and women's rights demonstrations, along with houses, squares, faces, and bodies.

After her mother’s death, Nicoletta Grillo discovered these materials, which allowed her to explore both her personal history and the broader collective one. Through the reinterpretation and reworking of these images, “Noi” presents a vision of the everyday life of a young woman in the 70s, her relationships, and their connection to the political climate of the time, including struggle for rights, fights for abortion laws, discovery of freedom, assertion of identity. Far from being outdated, these fragments—these images, these words—resonate, bringing together a multiplicity of subjects: the protesters, the friends, the lovers, and the public. This multiplicity, central to every relationship, becomes the basis for a reflection on not just the female condition, but the human one.

The project takes shape in a book that moves from the public to the intimate dimension.
A series of cutouts, increasingly close to the body, highlights gestures of revolt and care.

Boîte Editions
2022

96 pages, 11,5x16,5 cm
Offset duotone print
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Careof, Milan
2022