Unlikely Monuments
Excerpt form the Catalogue
Limited edition of 20 artist's books
50 digital prints 30 x 45 cm
Hand-sewn pamphlet, 12 pages, 30 x 45 cm
Plexiglass case 32 x 47 x 3 cm
Texts, photographs and design:
© Sonia Lenzi
Typography and layout:
© Sara Murrone
Essays:
© Giovanna Calvenzi
© Lucy R. Lippard
© Uliana Zanetti
Published by Tosca Press
October 2024
History and memory are in different ways a construction, like photography, and do not represent or tell what immediately appears but rather what we want to preserve, reveal, or reflect on. Monuments dedicated to women who played a public role or gained a noteworthy position in the public sphere, be they ones known, unknown, or forgotten, are undoubtedly unlikely, as the spaces where they are placed. What is proposed is a reflection on the meaning of "monument", on how we are remembered and how we would like to be represented, perhaps through other forms than the patriarchal ones monuments have taken on.
The gaps and the cataloguing itself may be filled or continued through proposals, making this cataloguing process collaborative. All these monuments are imagined in Bologna, Italy.