{"id":20811,"date":"2019-08-21T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=20811"},"modified":"2019-12-17T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:28:00","slug":"tomaso-binga-a-silenced-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/tomaso-binga-a-silenced-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomaso Binga – A Silenced Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nOggi Spose (Just married), 1977, black-and-white photographs in vintage frames, diptych, cm 19 x 13 (each). Courtesy Tomaso Binga<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomaso Binga – A Silenced Victory<\/h2>\n

September 26, 2019 \u2013 December 20, 2019
\nOpen Wednesday \u2013 Saturday from 12pm to 6pm
\nMimosa House, 12 Princes Street, London, UK<\/p>\n

London, July 2019 : On 26 September, non-profit space Mimosa House will be presenting Tomaso Binga – A Silenced Victory<\/em> the first solo exhibition in the UK of renowned Italian artist and poet Tomaso Binga. The exhibition will feature poetry, installation, photography, video, works on polystyrene, and new works on paper. Many of the works will be shown for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tomaso Binga\u2019 is the artistic pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna (b. 1931, Salerno), which was adopted by the artist in the late 1960s. Working with poetry, writing, performance, collage and painting, Binga dissects and challenges the gendered nature of language \u2013 exposing patriarchy encrypted within its very structure. The paradoxical act of appropriating a masculine name allowed the artist to parody male prerogatives in society, emphasising women\u2019s lack of agency and voice within the arts and politics.<\/p>\n

During her significant 1977 performance Bianca Menna e Tomaso Binga Oggi Spose<\/em> [Just Married], Binga invited guests to attend the celebration of the \u2018wedding\u2019 between herself \u2013 Tomaso Binga, and herself \u2013 Bianca Menna. Cards and gifts were left by guests for the newly wedded couple, gradually forming an installation. Binga appeared at the event dressed androgynously: wearing a white embroidered shirt and trousers, short hair and glasses. A photograph taken from the 1977 performance will be shown at Mimosa House. The first floor of Mimosa House will be transformed with a recreated version of the immersive installation Casa Malangone \u2013 Carta da Parato<\/em> (1976), which consists of wall-papered walls filled with decorative floral patterns and \u2018asemantic writing\u2019 \u2013 Binga\u2019s gestural and ineligible writing introduced by the artist in the early 70s. \u2018Asemantic writing\u2019 is a subliminal and liberating method of writing which acts beyond the common meanings of words and their sounding.<\/p>\n

Binga has previously activated the space of Casa Malangone with her own body, wearing a dress made of the same wallpaper and reading aloud her poem I\u2019m a paper. This performance \u2013 paradoxical in its act of merging with the decorative domestic space \u2013 refers to the concept of a muted female presence.<\/p>\n

Binga\u2019s 1977 body of work on paper, Ti scrivo solo di domenica<\/em> [I write you only on Sundays], will also feature at the Mimosa House exhibition. Ti scrivo solo di domenica<\/em> (1977) is a sequence of 52 letters typed on traditional paper from the artist\u2019s native Amalfi coast, sent every Sunday to a female, imaginary friend. The first letter reads: \u201cMy dear Friend, I write to you only on Sundays, as Sunday is the only female day of the week\u201d followed by others: \u201cMy dear friend, I open my mouth to smile,\u201d \u201cMy dear friend, I still believe in people,\u201d \u2013 all letters together forming one long poem.<\/p>\n

Additional works on show will include Alfabeto Proverbiale<\/em> from 1990s. Pages from \u2018A-B-C\u2019 books illustrated with children\u2019s imagery are combined with concise political manifestos to generate a variety of uncanny interpretations: A – Ape [Bee] – Arte e Armonia [Art and Harmony]; B – Barca [Boat] – Basta Bugie [Enough Lies]; C – Cane [ Dog ] – Cantare non Contare [Sing not Count]; and D – Dado [Cube] – Dare non Dire [ Give not Say ]. Throughout the rest of the multi-floor space, the exhibition will also feature Binga\u2019s recent and new works on paper \u2013 highlighting her continuing fascination with word play and rhymes, as well as her reflections on current feminist issues including body image and
\nsurrogate motherhood.<\/p>\n

The exhibition has been curated by Daria Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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