WORKSHOP FRAMMENTI DI REALTÀ. Self-portraiture and self-representation

On the 25-26 May 2024 I will run the workshop FRAMMENTI DI REALTÀ. Self-portraiture and self-representation in Padua.

"How do I perceive myself?", "How do others see me?" and "How do I want to be seen?". We will try to answer through creativity arising from the expression of gesture, word and collage. Each participant will be guided to finish a personal book with Japanese binding technique, containing the material produced during the workshop.

No artistic experience/skills are necessary for the workshop.

Info and bookings: info@magmahub.it

Through the Looking Glass Online Workshop

Through the Looking Glass Online Workshop,

a 6 sessions online workshop on self-portraiture

 in ITALIAN every TUESDAY from 9 MAY to 13 JUNE 2023, 7 pm - 9.30 pm

in ENGLISH every THURSDAY from 22 JUNE to 27 JULY 2023, 7 pm - 9.30 pm

If you are interested in the body as space, movement, dance, sound and text, this is for you.

It will focus on the evolution of the use of the body and self-portraiture in visual arts and performance practice.

Participants will develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow making a project based on self-portraiture.

For information and costs: info@magmahub.it

RELAZIONI CHE UCCIDONO. Abusi, violenza e psicoterapia

Conference on

RELATIONSHIPS THAT KILL

Abuse, violence, and psychotherapy

11th March 2023

Centro Congressi Cavour

Via Cavour 50/a, Rome

M. Baldassarre, R. Di Giambattista, V. Di Piero, C. Galante, S. Gentili, E. Lupo, G. Maggiorelli, R. Messina, B. Paoleschi, F. Pizzoferro, M. Rossi Monti, A. Troisi

Relationships can turn into a cage that destroys existence. From parent-child relationships to those with a partner, all based on love, arise the roots of future disasters. Levels of conflict can result in tragedies that overwhelm life itself.

Profound conflicts are addressed by experts from different disciplines from various perspectives, which are fundamental for the therapeutic treatment.

INFO, COSTS AND REGISTRATION: segreteria@centroclinicocidp.com

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BIRDS SINGING ELECTRONS FLOWING IN CIRCUIT

In July and August I will be a resident artist at SíM (The Association of Visual Artists of Iceland) residency in Reykjavík. I started a crowdfunding campaign ‘Birds singing electrons flowing in circuits' to support and make new work while at SÍM.
You can support me by getting one of the perks or by sharing it. Thank you!

https://igg.me/at/birds-singing-electrons-/x#/

Online book launch: FATE by Alexandra Rendhell (Apeiron Edizioni, 2022)

FRIDAY 28 JANUARY 2022 at 19:00

MAGMA Hub presents online the book

FATE by Alexandra Rendhell (Apeiron Edizioni, 2022)

with Alexandra Rendhell, Mirella Baldassarre and Silvia Gentili

You can register for free at the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-fate-252125653617

Fairies, Goblins, Gnomes, Elves, Trolls... Creatures linked to a mythical and fairy-tale spirituality. They  belong to a natural, but transcendent and magical dimension, different aspects of a single Unity from which man has moved away.

Through the true stories told here, and linked to these fantastic (or obvious?) Creatures, the world of Magic becomes a current reality.  Our everyday life is deprived of its uniqueness and its presumed universality.

The human being can thus rediscover not only his childhood’s forgotten language, and sometimes experience a lost paradise once more. He can also discover the way to enter a new spiritual universe, infinitely richer than the present closed world.

We will discover how the Little People have moved from myth to the collective imagination entering the folk cultures of all peoples, even though with some differences in the names and methods of representation, both physical and symbolic.

INFO: info@magmahub.it

www.magmahub.it

Fate di Alexandra Rendhell

Thrilled to have my photo on the cover of 'Fate' by Alexandra Rendhell.

Fairies: a journey between reality and fantasy with the little people and other creatures.

Through the Looking Glass Online Workshop

A 6 sessions online workshop on self-portraiture in English every Thursday 11th Nov - 16th Dec 2021.

It focuses on visual arts as a way of seeing and being seen through the body and the different forms that corporeality can have.

We will look at contemporary practice and the development of the use of the body and self-portraiture in visual arts and performance practice.

Participants will develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow creating a photographic/video project based on self-portraiture.

The body, sound, writing, memory and movement will be at the centre of our work.

One of the sessions will be held with Dr Manuela Stucchi, Psychologist, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

For info and costs: info@silviagentili.com

Shutter Hub YEARBOOK2021

Honored that one of the images from the series ‘The Intimacy of a Strange Being’ is included in the Shutter Hub YEARBOOK 2021 online exhibition and printed publication.

In Escalation Exhibition

‘In Escalation’ - a&o Kunsthalle, Brandenburger Str 2 -04103 Leipzig

11 - 25 Sept, Thur - Sat 4 pm - 7pm

Do you feel it rising? more and more and more. is it enough? is it too much? can we handle it? will it ease up?
Artists from the PILOTENKUECHE Online Residency join to give a worldwide perspective

Nara Rosetto (BR), Silvia Gentili (IT), Eitan Ritz (AU), Nadja Shkirat (DE,IL), Marc VanDermeer (US), Sotiria Bramou (GR), Kana Maeda (JP), Franziska Ostermann (DE), Therese Lippold (DE), Catherin Schöberl (DE),Emily Wisniewski (US), A. Morgan McKendry (US), Dalia Kiaupaite (LT)

Silvia Gentili: perceive, trigger, feel

I was interviewed by Victoria Nabulime for PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program // LEIPZIG.

You can read it here:

http://westside.pilotenkueche.net/?p=25613

CLOSSNESS: a matter of perception

"In which ways does the way we see ourselves and the way the world sees us align or misalign? Nara Rosetto (BR), Eitan Ritz (AU), Silvia Gentili (IT), and maeshelle west-davies (US/UK/DE) addressed this question during their performances at Closeness.

According to French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the ‘body’ is a main agent of perception. At the same time, it is the target one perceives. Here, the issue of perception is important. Humans exist when they discover each other in the world. Others and self recognize each other and converge in this awareness. If we observe this from a phenomenological aspect, the ‘body’ is the place where ‘meaning’ is revealed.

The event CLOSENESS was part of blauverschiebung No.14 – International Performance Festival Leipzig at Galerie KUB and showcased livestream performances by PILOTENKUECHE’s online residents and a durational performance by Maeshelle West-Davies. "

Written by Jisoo Seo

You can read entire piece here:
http://westside.pilotenkueche.net/?p=25649

Through the Looking Glass online Workshop

I am running a 6 sessions online workshop on self-portraiture in English every Thursday from the 20th of May until the 24th of June.

It focuses on visual arts as a way of seeing and being seen through the body and the different forms that corporeality can have.

We will look at contemporary practice and the evolution of the use of the body and self-portraiture in visual arts and performance practice.

Participants will develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow creating a photographic/video project based on self-portraiture.

The body, sound, writing, memory and movement will be at the centre of our work.

One of the sessions will be held with Dr Manuela Stucchi, Psychologist, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

For info and costs: info@silviagentili.com

SUONI, FORME E COLORI

SUONI, FORME E COLORI

A Journey into the World of Art

Free online workshop in Italian for children aged 4 - 10

Run by Silvia Gentili and Manuela Stucchi

Saturday 15th May 2021

At a time when new forms of social cohesion are needed, MAGMA Hub proposes to rediscover being together through art and creativity with three free online workshops dedicated to children aged 4 to 10.

We will create stories using sounds, shapes and colours, rediscovering the joy of dreaming of fantastic worlds together while stimulating imagination at a time in history when it is even more difficult for children to make sense of their feelings and of the changes they are experiencing.

A one hour workshop will be dedicated to each of the three age groups 4-5, 6-7 and 8-10 years old.

Workshop 4-5 years: 10.30 - 11.30 am
Workshop 8-10 years: 2.30 - 3.30 pm
Workshop 6-7 years: 4.30 - 5.30 pm

Info and bookings: info@magmahub.it

MAGMA Hub

I am pleased to introduce MAGMA Hub, a medical humanities hub created and directed by me within CIDP (Italian Centre for Personality Disorders).

The intent is to open an interdisciplinary dialogue to create a space where new methodologies and ways of expression can be explored and created to help patients find their voice in dealing with illness and the trauma it brings, which is not always part of the therapeutic process.

The integration of medicine and treatment, humanities and art can improve people's health and wellbeing by overcoming limitations, contexts and socio-cultural inequalities. They become a mode of expression, methodology, therapy, and a means through which new forms of expression can be created to overcome the stigma and isolation with which the disease is often associated.

www.magmahub.it

Through the Looking Glass - Online workshop on self-portraiture

Thought the Looking Glass - Online Workshop on self-portraiture

11th Feb - 18th March

6 meetings from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm (CET)

Self-portraiture is self-representation. It allows communication with one's own inner image, which is the base for self-knowledge and personal memory.
Self-portraiture means also storytelling and allows not only to tell about one's inner world but also about external reality. 

What we will cover:

The purpose of this workshop is to develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow creating a photographic project based on self-portraiture.

We will focus on the use of body, movement, sound, and text.

Each participant will develop a personal project.

One of the meetings will be run in collaboration with Dr. Manuela Stucchi, psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

It is not necessary to have photography knowledge. Participants can use cameras or cell phones to make their projects.

Info and booking: info@silviagentili.com

Workshop Frammenti di Realtà. Autoscatto e autorappresentazione.

Self-portraiture is self-representation. It allows communication with one's own inner image, which is the base for self-knowledge and personal memory and often does not correspond with the vision one has of themselves. Reality appears ephemeral, and exploration leads to questions such as: "Who Am I really?" Often, we do not recognize or accept the portrayed image, and being placed in front of one's own image involves aesthetic concerns. This is due to the distorted perception of the internalized image compared to the real one.

How would you portray yourself? We will explore personal perception through elements concerning the self and its appearance using informed choices. "How do I perceive myself?", "How do others see me?" and "How do I want to be seen?" During this workshop, participants will use different methods to explore their own representation, such as photography, drawing with watercolors, collage and text. They will go home with a self-made small book, finished with Japanese binding, which will contain the material produced during the two days of the workshop.

Info and bookings:

info@silviagentili.com

sacripanteartgallery@gmail.com

Il 14 e 15 Dicembre 2019 terrò il workshop Frammenti di realtà. Autoscatto e autorappresentazione, organizzato dal CIDP, centro clinico di psicoterapia psicoanalitica che ha l’obiettivo primario di fornire un appoggio finalizzato alla tutela della salute psicologica della personali.

L’autoritratto è autorappresentazione. Esso permette la comunicazione con la propria immagine interiore, base per la conoscenza di sé e memoria personale, che spesso non coincide con la visione che si ha di se stessi. Il reale appare effimero. L’esplorazione porta a porsi domande come: “sono realmente io?”. Spesso non riconosciamo o accettiamo l’immagine ritratta, ed essere posti di fronte alla propria immagine comporta preoccupazioni di tipo estetico. Questo è dovuto alla percezione distorta dell’immagine interiorizzata rispetto a quella reale.

Come ti ritrarresti? Esploreremo la percezione personale attraverso elementi riguardanti l’Io e il proprio aspetto utilizzando scelte consapevoli. "Come percepisco me stesso?", "Come mi vedono gli altri?" e “Come voglio essere visto?”

I partecipanti useranno diversi metodi per esplorare la propria rappresentazione, quali fotografia, disegno con acquerelli, collage e testo. Per poi produrre un piccolo libro, rifinito con rilegatura giapponese, che conterrà il materiale prodotto durante i due giorni del workshop.

Violence and childhood, a conference organized by Unicef and CIDP (Italian Centre of Personality Disorders) taking place in Matera, European capital of culture 2019, tomorrow. I will show ‘The Shapes We Buried’, a video project telling the story of a girl that has known violence as a child.

Political Bodies
L’arTe è parTe di Te
February 10th - February 17th 2019
Galleria Cavour, Padova

Private View 9th February from 5pm

Political Bodies, promoted by the Arts and Culture Department of the city of Padua and supported by CIDP (Italian Centre of Personality Disorders), presents 10 emerging artists who, through photography, sculpture, video, and performance, have placed the human body central into their practice, either as a physical entity or as a metaphor. The body is hidden, wounded, isolated, and vulnerable. It is a space to explore contemporary themes such as identity and representation, sexuality and gender, society and media.

The invited artists come from different countries and cultures, but they are united by the use of the body as subject and medium; creating a universal language able to give voice to inner and personal worlds as well as to raise questions on social and political issues.

Artists included in the show are Jocelyn Allen, Mariana Bisti, Blør, Diego Brambilla, Silvia Gentili, Dionysis Livanis, Yole Quintero, Christopher Schulz, Paloma Tendero, and Emese Wu.

The issues addressed in the exhibition will be discussed in talks with the artists and Italian and international figures of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and art.


Curators: Silvia Gentili, Dionysis Livanis
Curator of the psychoanalytic side: Elisabetta Nalon
Cultural Organiser: Elisabetta Negroni

Opening hours 10am-1pm, 3pm-7pm
Monday closed, free admission
Curator tour: 12, 13, 15, 16 February 4pm

Info
Settore Cultura, Turismo, Musei e Biblioteche - Servizio Mostre
calores@comune.padova.it – tel. 049 8204547
padovacultura.it

Between Selves is an exhibition that features the work of three artists who question the concept of self in relation to their own experience. Their existence is confronted by exploring issues related to appearance, mental and physical health through self-portraiture.
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44 Ashdown Crescent, London, NW5 4EA, United Kingdom
Opening PV: 16th Dec , 6-9pm
Sunday: 12-5pm, Mon-Tue: 1-7pm
Workshop: 20th Dec, 10:30-16.30pm

Get your workshop ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-selves-workshop-tickets-41015311902