Art and Words Against Gender Violence: A Cultural Shift Through Reflection

A special art exhibition: illustrations and words against gender violence are used to stimulate reflection, starting from language, to promote a cultural change. The vernissage is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 9, at 18:00, in Pomigliano d'Arco, in the Capriate room, former Distillery “Culture District”. With paintings by Liliana Comes, accompanied by texts curated by Maria Pirro, taboos about men who kill women are debunked: they are not monsters (it's wrong to call them so), but among us, and they do not scare us. “70 percent of femicides occur within a narrow and extended family context,” emphasizes the lawyer Teresa Liguori with her colleague Maria Rosaria Allocca, organizer of the initiatives sponsored by the Municipality of Pomigliano d'Arco. The perpetrators are partners and ex-partners, in most cases. Husbands and boyfriends who mistake love for possession. Not surprisingly, “He told me I was beautiful” is a phrase heard many, too many times at the Selene desk, dedicated to victims, which gives the title to the project selected by the Banco Napoli Foundation. The program also involves young people. Coinciding with International Women's Day, a debate was held with students at the scientific high school and human sciences Salvatore Cantone of Pomigliano d'Arco, which joined the anti-violence campaign. Introducing the topic was the school principal Giovanni Russo, with Elvira Romano, municipal councilor for Equal Opportunities, and teachers Laura Manfrellotti and Ines Barone as moderators of various interventions. Tomorrow, March 9, at 18:00, the vernissage is scheduled in the hall at Via Roma 281, opened by a performance of Pomigliano dance. Following, among the activities, the presentation of two books. On Saturday, March 16, at 18:00, Massimiliano Murolo introduces “Primma e ccriature” by Nicola Manna: with Marco Zurzolo and Mariangela Boldoni, reading of texts by Bruno Minotti, and in the presence of the mayor of Pomigliano d'Arco Lello Russo, the councilor for Equal Opportunities Elvira Romano, the councilor for Culture Giovanni Russo, with Bruno Zamparelli, president of Anamado. On Saturday, March 23, at 18:00, the meeting on “The thoughts of a barefoot woman” by Emanuela Castaldo, moderated by Fabio Iuorio, Elvira Romano intervenes. Partners of the project: anti-violence desk Selene, social cooperative Girotondo Sociale, social cooperative Astraea, Pro Loco Pomigliano d'Arco, UniTre Pomigliano, Futura The School For Italy Of Tomorrow, Dama Danphnes Museum Publishing. Activities in collaboration with the magazine Art & Society and Road Tv.