Reclaiming The (Female) Body

Artwork by Mette Björnberg, Power Play (no. 1), 2017, courtesy of Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Reclaiming The (Female) Body is a series of three lectures held by art curator Michela D’Acquisto for the Future Based platform, aimed at exploring how women get represented in male-run environments. Art is one of these. We will investigate how, [...]

Thanks to the feminist impact of the 1960s, women started to employ their bodies to narrate the full female experience - without boundaries or censorship. Join us on this journey of discovery, emancipation, and, most importantly, reclamation of the self.

What if women created the so-called Paleolithic Venus figurines as a form of self-representation? Beginning with this fascinating and refreshing theory, we will explore the first self-portraits by female artists, and we will talk about their refusal of imposed roles: when they stopped being muses and finally became artists themselves.