LA CASA DELLE DONNE
2019

“La Casa Delle Donne” is a multi-channel video installation.

I recorded this footage while a "Visiting Artist” at the American Academy in Rome in 2019. I was inspired by a visit to a
17th-century girls’ prison near the Academy. Originally a “female reformatory”, it is now the seat of “La Casa International Delle Donne”
(National Feminist Institute) of Italy.  In the past, young women and girls were housed in small, white, mostly windowless cells,
separated into categories, and ‘remediated’ through sewing and embroidery. Curious to see what would transpire,
I photographed a friend standing in one of the old cells.

Sample Clip - 1:03
Full Length Loop - 4:55 Minutes
Performer: Dina Madi