VODKA & TENA LADY
VODKA & TENA LADY
VODKA & TENA LADY: a macabre work by Gioia Maini
Before becoming an artistic project, V&TL is a performative, domestic and everyday act which Gioia Maini aka Charlie G Fennel and their Grandmother have given substance to on Instagram every day for few years.
As with every performance, meticulous research is satisfied by the practice itself, by the action and, in this case, by the costume/transvestism and the staging of a theatre of the absurd where the Grandmother becomes a Diva and the Grandchild a director and aide.
In the short films we witness funny and very serious family treatment. An ironic macabre dance that mocks social and gender roles to celebrate the obsolescence of the concept of generation.
After the grandmother's death, what was once a playful vanitas becomes painful and disturbing.
When death arrives, only silent and inanimate objects remain but it is precisely by interpreting and dressing these objects that the homage to the deceased finds its form and the grief can finally be processed.
Because at the roots of this operation, a universal truth emerges powerful and revolutionary: taking care of others is today the most radical and nonconformist choice that can be made.
The pictures you find in the exhibition are the result of the emotional participation of artists who offered their gaze to Vodka & Tena Lady.
In alphabetical order, thanks to Marcel Asso, Sasha Ertel, Tiziano Rossano Maineri, Francesca Mele, Matilde Piazzi, Claudia Rossini
CURATOR: Matilde Piazzi - Studio Pied-à-Terre.
The Exhibit has been traveling through Festival around Europe and we aim to make it tour the World:
25.10.2019 - 3.11.2018
Gender Bender Festival
Piedàterre Studio Gallery _ Bologna, Italy
25 - 27.1.2019
Lesbiche fuorisalone Festival Lesbian & Queer Vision _ Milan, Italy
24 - 26.5.2019
Olè Festival
XM24 _ Bologna, Italy
7 - 23.6.2019
What is Eros?
Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival _ Thessaloníki, Greece
Debra Rapoport's NYFW Gathering New York