SHE DEVIL 13. (S)HE DEVIL

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Exhibitions | SHE DEVIL 13

video exhibition

exhibition opening:
wednesday march 20th, 2024, 6.30-9 pm

exhibition closing:
may 24th, 2024

opening hours:
monday to friday, 4–8pm

SHE DEVIL 13. (S)HE DEVIL

artists | curators

good father of the edition: ALFREDO JAAR
GABRIEL ANDREU
| Elena Giulia Rossi
FILIPPO BERTA
| Paola Ugolini
NELSON BOURREC CARTER | Dobrila Denegri
MARCO DALBOSCO
| Susanna Bianchini
BART GROENENDAAL
| Benedetta Carpi De Resmini
IOCOSE
| dionæa.
JUHANI KOIVUMÄKI
| Manuela Pacella
ADRIANO LA LICATA | Valentina Bruschi
MAURICIO LIMÓN DE LEÓN | Alessandra Troncone
MARCO RESTA
| Caterina Iaquinta
FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ CASTILLO
| Benedetta Casini
ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI
| Cristiana Perrella

about.

STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI is proud to present (S)HE DEVIL, the thirteenth edition of its regular review of video work, SHE DEVIL. This year sees the exhibition – exceptionally – featuring a selection of work produced exclusively by male artists. United by their ability to provide insights and perspectives, these works consider patriarchy in its role as a relational system of power and domination.

The polyphonic conversation that Stefania Miscetti and her curatorial team have devised for this edition began in the second half of 2022, when patriarchy was not yet a recurring feature of public discourse in Italy. The choice was partly the result of the news and images coming out of the protests in Iran at the time, notably in terms of the large-scale, collective dimension they had acquired. This edition therefore engages with possible practices of male self-awareness, and their resulting stances and responsibilities with regard to violence (whether perpetrated or experienced).

To quote Francesca Pasini (who in turn refers to Lia Cigarini’s concept of ‘fratrie’): now that we are experiencing the “collapse of the patriarchal symbolic order”, men must “investigate their own difference, and from there come to terms with an Other outside of their own selves. This is the new task to correct ‘the present disorder’, and it is not only up to women.” In this sense, in spite of the different narrative point of view – provided, for the first time, by the male gaze – SHE DEVIL reaffirms its conceptual coherence with themes and curatorial choices that are inevitably and intrinsically related to the repercussions of the patriarchal system on the female world. As a result, the structural, social, political and economic aspects of hegemonic masculinity – not only as a historical and cultural construct, but also as a set of practices that have allowed the perpetration of coercion and oppression – are highlighted and questioned through the video form.

 As is traditional, this year’s edition draws its guiding spirit from the work of an internationally renowned practitioner. The artist chosen as the “Good Father of this edition is Alfredo Jaar, whose 1996 video piece A Short Film on Monstrosity will be featured.

A new book, published by CURA, will also celebrate the last two editions of SHE DEVIL, both of which have ‘strayed’ from the format’s usual conventions (the twelfth edition embraced the notion of fluidity). This volume will build on and extend the work of the previous one, also published by CURA, which was presented at MAXXI in 2019. The new book will be launched in spring 2024 at the Basement space in Rome.

more SHE DEVIL.

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art gallery Rome | Catalogues | Paolo Canevari

SHE DEVIL

I-XI

catalogue of the project
CURA., rome, 2019

SHE DEVIL

XII-XIII

catalogue of the project CURA., rome, 2024

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art gallery Rome | Catalogues | Paolo Canevari

SHE DEVIL ON TOUR

exhibition catalogue
bucarest, 2009

All SHE DEVIL exhibitions and events.

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Exhibitions | SHE DEVIL 13

SHE DEVIL 13: (S)HE DEVIL
2024

Studio Stefania Miscetti | projects | SHE DEVIL, SHE DEVIL - BIENALSUR

SHE DEVIL BIENALSUR
MUNTREF | 2023

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL XII: S_HE DEVIL
MAXXI | 2021

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL XI: We Will Survive
2019

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL Remix
Centro Pecci Prato | 2018

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL X: Resisters
2018

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 9: Today
2017

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 8: In the Mirror
2016

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 7
2015

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 6
2014

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 5
2011

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL: Brava
Special Christmas Edition | 2010

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 4
2010

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 3
2009

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL 2
2007

Studio Stefania Miscetti | Contemporary Art Rome | Exhibitions / Projects | Gian Domenico Sozzi, She Devil Christmas Edition 2009

SHE DEVIL
2006