LA CASA DELLE DONNE
2019

“La Casa Delle Donne”

”La Casa Delle Donne” was recorded in a 17th-century girls’ residence near the American Academy in Rome,
where I was a Visiting Artist in 2019. Originally a female reformatory, it is now the seat of Casa Internazionale delle Donne
(Italy’s National Feminist Institute). Young women and girls were housed in small, white, mostly windowless cells, and
remediated through sewing and embroidery. Thinking about women, restrictions, surveillance, and defiance,