Online workshop on self-portraiture
A 6 sessions online workshop
Every Thursday from the 20th of May until the 24th of June 2021
6.30 – 9.30 pm (CEST)
Deadline: 18th May 2021
Application fee: €180
Self-portrait is self-representation. It allows communication with one's own inner image, which is the base for self-knowledge and personal memory.
Self-portraiture also means storytelling and allows not only to tell about one's inner world but also about external reality.
The workshop focuses on visual arts as a way of seeing and being seen through the body and the different forms that corporeality can have.
We will look at contemporary practice and the evolution of the use of the body and self-portraiture in visual arts and performance practice.
Participants will develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow creating a photographic/video project based on self-portraiture.
Body, sound, writing, memory and movement will be at the centre of our work.
One of the sessions will be held with Dr Manuela Stucchi, Psychologist, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Each participant will develop a personal project and each meeting will have a theoretical and practical part.
Silvia Gentili is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator and workshop facilitator. Her practice explores stories that belong to the personal and political realm through the use of photography, film, performance, sound and text.
Her research investigates the concepts of trauma and memory in connection to the body, landscape and storytelling. Recently, her research has moved into the field of Medical Humanities.
Gentili gained a MA in Photography from London College of Communication, and previous to that a BA in Anthropology (University of the Studies of Rome La Sapienza) and a Diploma in Photography (IED Rome).
She is vice director of CIDP (Centro Italiano Disturbi di Personalità www.centroclinicocidp.com) and director of MAGMA Hub (www.magmahub.it).
Info and bookings: info@silviagentili.com
