Veranstaltungen

19.11.2023

Barbara Casavecchia, Övül Ö Durmusoglu

Echoes from the Outside

For the final cycle of ‘A House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing’ Övül Ö Durmusoglu and Barbara
Casavecchia propose a conversation focused on the outside- the en plein air, the orchard, the
garden- and the outsider position historically imposed upon female healing practises linked with
situated botanical knowledge. The Orto Botanico in Florence, one of the oldest in Europe, was
founded in mid XVI century, at a time when the names of witches burned on the square overlooking
San Miniato’s abbey were officially recorded in the Florentine archives. “With the marginalisation of
the midwife, the process began by which women lost the control they had exercised over procreation”
(Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 2004, p.89). The conversation between two curators, colleagues,
friends coming from the Mediterranean basin reflects on possible ways of re-imagining versatile
connections with that ‘outer’, Other-ed space, through different voices of artists that revolve around
technologies and histories of care, and digital and ancestral memory in close connection with soil. It
will initiate a long term engagement with the living and co-habiting grounds of Villa Romana.

The project is realised with the contribution of the Fondazione CR Firenze.

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