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Elena Bellanton, Le ceneri di Gramsci e Pasolini, 2022, Courtesy Elena Bellantoni<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Elena Bellantoni, C'era una voglia di ballare che faceva luce 2023, courtesy dell'artista\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Elena Bellantoni, Reenactment the Banality of Evil in 69 gestures, 69, foto in bianco e nero, 40x50 cm, 2022, Courtesy Elena Bellantoni, 25\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Elena Bellantoni. Ghostwriter<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>

Curated by Fulvio Chimento
\n<\/b>In collaboration with the Equal Opportunities Office of Reggio Emilia City Council <\/b>as part of the project\u00a0In-tersezione. Focusing on languages and practices to promote change in the fight against violence against women
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Ghostwriter<\/span><\/i> refers to a ghost from history, a sort of <\/span>\u201cre-evocation\u201d of events expressed through symbolic figures of the human experience<\/b>. This re-evocation is activated through the artist\u2019s body, which invites us to reflect on the ways through which history can be recounted, remembering that \u201c<\/span>women are the unexpected bodies of history<\/b>\u201d, as maintained by Carla Lonzi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the language of photography and auteur cinema, with incursions into sculpture and installation, the exhibition designed by Elena Bellantoni draws on the theme of the uncanny; it explores things that upset or alter social, physical or psychic nature, which disturb the human mind and soul, forces that are activated by leveraging ordinary fears, capable of creating conditioning, or even a \u201ccollective egregore\u201d. <\/span>It is as if history were being rewritten cyclically by the same hand, a hand that stays mysteriously in shadow, generating events that are an expression of perpetually opposing forces and infinitely replicable outcomes.<\/b> Umberto Eco himself referred to \u201cThe eternal dimension of fascism\u201d in his essay\u00a0<\/span>Eternal Fascism<\/span><\/i>, not with reference to a specific historical regime, but to an\u00a0<\/span>archetype of thought and behaviour (Ur-Fascism)<\/b>, which is manifested today in camouflaged forms (in civilian clothes) through elements such as irrationalism, the rejection of criticism, the fear of diversity, machismo and populism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Biography<\/span><\/a><\/h2><\/div>
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Elena Bellantoni<\/strong> (1975) is a visual artist and teacher at the ABA in Rome. A graduate in Contemporary Art History, she studied in Paris and London, earning a Master’s degree in Visual Art from the University of the Arts London in 2007. Among her exhibitions and awards: <\/span>Tragicomica<\/span><\/i> in 2026. <\/span>L\u2019arte italiana dal secondo novecento ad oggi<\/span><\/i>, at the MAXXI in Rome; in 2023, she was chosen and named Best Italian Artist of the Year by the contemporary art magazine Artribune. In 2024, Bellantoni was selected among the finalist artists of the Mario Merz Prize at the Merz Foundation in Turin. In 2023 she inaugurated the Dior Spring-Summer 2024 show with the installation NOT HER at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. In 2018, she was among the winning artists of the fourth edition of the Italian Council of MiBACT; in 2019, she presented the book of her project at the MAXXI in Rome, focusing on her video production. Also in 2018, she was selected for Manifesta 12 side events in Palermo. In 2014 she won the Repubblica.it Special Prize at the Talent Prize; in 2012 In Other Words, <\/span>the Black Market of Translation \u2013 Negotiating Contemporary Cultures<\/span><\/i>, an exhibition at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n



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exhibition venue<\/h3>\n

Chiesa di San Carlo
\nvia San Carlo, 1
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