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No matter how many documents we have portraying scenes from the theatre, they are no more than fragments. They can capture our attention, spur emotions, bring back memories, remind us of other times, but they are nothing but a glimmer, rather imperfect witnesses to the works and life of the theatre. An archive can provide no more than fragments, each one a fragile piece. It is up to us to find elements of interest in them, in one way or another. They inform us on the various experiences that have taken place at La Biennale, they hint at singular artistic episodes and a history built upon thought, choices, affinities and contrasts over the many years that the Biennale Teatro has been held, beginning in 1934.
This year’s collection, which is dedicated specifically to the women directors who have participated in the programmes of the past, is simply conceived to echo this year’s programme of the Biennale Teatro 2017, which Director Antonio Latella has chosen to dedicate to today’s women directors, many of whom have had little opportunity to make their work known in Italy. A choice, a discovery that brings new light to the history and current state of theatre.
We wish to thank the ASAC.

The idea of presenting an exhibition in the Portego is strictly related to the concept of the Biennale Teatro 2017, which has been conceived as a process that makes it possible to attend small ‘solo’ exhibitions, or retrospectives, dedicated to each individual artist. Following in the path undertaken by this year’s Festival, this exhibition intends to highlight and find ways to pay tribute to the women artists, the directors, who presented their work at the Biennale Teatro.
Today, we are often unexpectedly thrilled by dramaturgical or aesthetic shifts that our memory has already erased, while it is not uncommon that everything we see has been masterfully told before, as the history of the Biennale Teatro never ceases to remind us.
The contemporary age is the fruit of our past, which in turn has become tradition. This was seen as contemporary at the very moment in which it created new languages that the public could not codify and somehow rejected, while today they have become a standard alphabet to work with or take inspiration from. The exhibition also intends to retrieve, through the appropriate documentation, fragments of experiences that have fallen into oblivion, the participation of women artists that only the necessary and fundamental contribution offered by the legacy of the Historical Archives can bring back to light, allowing us to understand that we owe who we are and what we can do today to those who have come before us.
A chronological journey through memory is thus not just reminiscence but living testimony, a chronicle of the infinite potential of languages that theatre can offer and that the women artists in the history of the Biennale Teatro can continue to tell us about in the silence of their having been and their being together again, now.