This project comes from a reflection on the imprisonment of the woman in domestic space: the family refuge where the men rested after their “exposition” to public space, and where the women provided care for the children and the “warmth” of the home.
I am drawing from the texts of the Italian feminist thinkers of the 70s, Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, who helped me show, from my practice based on video and performance, how the work of caretaking and maintenance carried out in the domestic space is considered marginal in our society, different from others that are considered central in the “social struggle” or “politics”.
To reinterpret the domestic space, looking for an equal space that allows us to generate a new way of sociability. To visualize an invisible job: and to visualize it in social terms, to bring it to the public eye, to “agora”. A job that is much more than cleaning, cooking, or having the house ready: it also involves emotional and sexual psychological maintenance for those who do in fact earn a salary with their daily jobs.
To search for a way to subvert that imprisonment, taking the struggle out of the kitchen and the bedroom, to the streets.