MUSE (2024)
Collaboration with Giovanna Petrocchi for MAEC and Cortona on the Move
'Muse' is a collaboration between Giulia Parlato and Giovanna Petrocchi, commissioned by Cortona on the Move and the MAEC Museum in Cortona. The project is a visual investigation of the representation of women from antiquity to the present day. The photographs, composed of collages, are the result of a fusion between archive material and shots taken inside the museum. The intention is to create a bridge between past and present, in which exhibits from different eras and portraits of women linked to the museum meet in a visual dialogue.
The layering created within the collages is intended as a figurative reminder of the fragmentary and pluralistic nature of historical narratives, and the invitation is to think of the museum as a place of discovery and unexpected connections.
The ancient 18th-century collections of the Accademia Etrusca are superimposed on contemporary portraits, Egyptian artefacts sit alongside archive slides, generating an anachronistic all-female inventory.
