The discussion brings together artist and researcher Beatrice Favaretto, scholar Alessandra Mulè, and film historian Gerard Damiano Jr., whose practices and fields of research offer distinct, and sometimes opposing, perspectives on audiovisual culture, writing, and self-representation, from artistic research to feminist politics and the relationship between the body, labor, and power.
The conversation will move across different periods, practices, and forms of knowledge, examining how the body has been represented, regulated, and reclaimed from the 1970s to the present. We will consider sexuality a cultural and collective space where desire, intimacy, pleasure, resistance, and conflict can take shape.
This research project is granted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.
About Beatrice Favaretto
Beatrice Favaretto (1992) is a visual artist whose practice focuses on the representation of sexuality and desire in contemporary society, as well as on the use of the body as a tool for collective activism. In 2025, she was a finalist for the research grant of Italian Council XIV. In 2024, she was a finalist for ARTEVISIONE24 by Careof – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan. In 2023, she won the Lydia Award, promoted by PAC and Fondazione Il Lazzaretto in Milan. In 2021, she was among the finalists of the first edition of Biennale College Arte, curated by Cecilia Alemani and Marta Papini. In 2020, she won the Artists’ Film Italia Recovery Fund Award, promoted by Schermo Dell’Arte, and was a finalist for the 2020 Premio Ducato. Her recent exhibitions include: 2026, A. Naturae, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; 2025, UNAROMA, MACRO, Rome; 2025, APERTO, Ratti Foundation, Como; 2025, PopLar - HMWN, MART, Rovereto; 2024, Multiple Maniacs, Mare Karina, Venice; 2024, HMWN, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan; 2024, LOOKATMEIII, Royal Hammam Sauna, Milan; 2024, STUCK!, The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam; 2023, Hold me While I’m Naked, Lateral, Rome; 2023, The Cut out body, Onomatopee, Eindhoven; 2023, AFASIA, Snoopy, Modena; 2023, Nuovo Forno del Pane, MAMbo, Bologna; 2022, Nel paese delle ultime cose, Manifattura Tabacchi and NAM – Not a Museum, Florence; 2022, Poison Green, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; 2022, Artists’ Film Italia Recovery Fund Award, GAMeC, Bergamo; 2021, CLAMOR, Sala Santa Rita, Rome; 2021, ArtCity Bologna, Cassero LGTBI+, Bologna; 2021, PRIME TIME, Magic Lantern Film Festival, Fondazione smART, Rome.
