Silvia Moro is an artist and a scenographer, but she stopped her artistic practice since the death of Pippa Bacca, her partner for the performance Brides On Tour, in 2008. She works with multiple media.
For those who don’t know, Brides on Tour was a performance Silvia Moro started in 2008 with Pippa Bacca, another Italian artist. They left from Italy to go around the Mediterranean Sea dressed with wedding dresses (made by the famous fashion brand Byblos), hitch-hiking and counting on people’s cooperation and knowing local communities. The aim of the performance was to celebrate the “marriage” between different peoples, different cultures. When they were in Turkey they separated briefly, and during that time Pippa Bacca disappeared. They found her days later: she had been raped and killed by a Turkish man who was sentenced to jail shortly after.
Silvia Moro stopped her artistic practice since that year, full of emotions to process. Many times the voice of Pippa Bacca has been heard through her family’s mouth, but Silvia Moro’s one was hardly listened to. She has now the opportunity to tell her side of the story, to underline the aspects that counts more for her.
This story is the proof of how a sexual violence sometimes cannot be overcome, and of how it affects people also indirectly.
Forever Ovary, the work that will be presented at the exhibition, is a big installation made with embroidered plastic bags. It was made during Brides on Tour, thanks to the plastic bags gifted by many women encountered by the artist on the way.
Conceived as a symbol of femininity, it embodies also the power of creation and fertility. It is seen as a creative push towards a greater good, symbolized by the number 2 as well. The imperfect symmetry and the bright colors give a unique aspect to it, a very human look.
Violence is here overcome with creation, vulnerability and collaboration.
Yes And More No | Paris 2018 