Hold On Her / Kate Gilmore (curated by IoDeposito & performed by Camilla Isola).

Kate Gilmore invents a new form of still life in which the female body stands on a stall supporting a number of objects with an archaeological and ethnographic flavor, displayed in a blatantly museum-like manner. Typically female work artifacts, such as panniers and jars, whose museum and representational value has been denied for centuries, relegating them to the margins of the artistic and cultural system because they are female in origin.

On the one hand, the performer’s pose translates gentleness and a sense of reunion and appeasement with the system; on the other, it represents a practice of female resistance (“carrying the burden”: an incisive metaphor for the female condition).

Performed by Camilla Isola at Wasted | IoDeposito