MONOCHROME

Visionary, disobedient, feminist. Milli Gandini (Varese, 1941 – Castiglione Olona, 2017), artist and cultural agitator, brought fierce critical force to the city she lived in: a 1970s Varese stifled by the greyness of neo-fascist backlash that sought to extinguish every form of dissent.

Does the title Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere truly reflect the work of the Claire Fontaine collective? Is it an appropriate title for this edition of the Venice Biennale?

When the body — with its power to subvert norms and generate pleasure — becomes a commodity, a crucial question arises: can this be an act of political rebellion, or is it merely another form of submission to the market? At the crossroads of power, identity and desire, the body is both a symbol of resistance and a site of exploitation.