LA CASA DELLE DONNE
2019

“La Casa Delle Donne” is a multi-channel video installation.

This video was recorded at a 17th-century girls’ prison near the American Academy in Rome, where I was a Visiting Artist.
Originally a “female reformatory,” it is now the seat of “La Casa International Delle Donne” (the National Feminist Institute) of Italy.
  Young women and girls were housed in small, white, mostly windowless cells and ‘remediated’ through sewing and embroidery.
Thinking about women and family and secrets, about silencing, freedom, and restrictions,
I photographed a friend standing in one of the windowless cells.

Sample Clip - 1:03
Full Length Loop - 4:55 Minutes
Performer: Dina Madi