Andrea Bowers Exhibition Highlights U.S. and Italian Anti-Nuclear Feminist Movements
Artist Andrea Bowers' solo exhibition, 'La Ragnatela,' at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, is spotlighting the historical Italian anti-nuclear feminist movement and women's camp La Ragnatela, which translates to 'the spiderweb.' This movement began in 1983 in Comiso, Sicily, to protest the installation of U.S. nuclear cruise missiles at the NATO base there. The exhibition also connects to the American grassroots ecofeminist and anti-nuclear movement, the Women's Pentagon Action, and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Encampment in England. Bowers' work, which includes pieces from 2003 to newly created artworks for the exhibition, aims to reconstruct and document the largely forgotten history of these movements. Curator Bernardo Follini assisted in finding and rebuilding the network of Italian ecofeminists, locating three women, now in their 80s and 90s, who contributed documents and clippings to the exhibition.
