LA CASA DELLE DONNE
2019

“La Casa Delle Donne”

I recorded this video in a 17th-century girls’ residence near the American Academy in Rome,
where I was a Visiting Artist. 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, restriction, distortion, and surveillance,
I made this video of a friend standing in one of the windowless cells.

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