Gaia Ginevra Giorgi

Re-Materialization of Language. 1978–2022 represents the first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, while simultaneously re-activating and re-contextualizing its historical themes in the present.
Long overlooked, the 1978 exhibition, curated by Mirella Bentivoglio and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists across diverse materials and practices, both individual and collective, marked a belated reintegration of women’s and feminist art practices within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia that was not yet fully aware of their significance.
Now recognized, after a long period of oblivion, as a turning point in the institutional emergence of women’s creativity and feminist art, Materializzazione del linguaggio was re-presented as a new exhibition in 2022, on the centenary of Bentivoglio’s birth, at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, and is now re-materialized in this publication.

Featuring visual and textual contributions from curators and editors Cristiana Perrella, Andrea Viliani, and Vittoria Pavesi; artists Tomaso Binga, Monica Bonvicini, BRACHA, and Nora Turato, who were invited to re-activate the exhibition; this publication, like the exhibition, navigates between bi- and tri-dimensionality, blurring the distinction between artwork and document, between museum and archive. In dialogue with the operation of Re-Materialization of Language, Giorgi’s performative intervention explores the recirculation of documents from an impossible archive (deteriorated recordings, found sounds, unsent letters, diary pages, notes, discarded materials) as a means of inventing new futures and temporalities.

Ri-Materializzazione del Linguaggio. 1978-2022 Book Presentation & Performance a Milano • Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare

Presentazione catalogo “Ri-Materializzazione del linguaggio” | Frittelli Arte Contemporanea

Re-Materialization of Language. 1978-2022 | NERO Editions