Ragazze per sempre is an artistic collective in which two languages converge: one language is that of a word (that wants to be body), the other language is sculpture and visual art. Two languages, two artists:
- Cristina Sertorio (classical high school, drama company Marco Gobetti, training with Danio Manfredini, Mariano Furlani)
- Diletta Lo Guzzo (DAMS, University of Bologna and Diploma in Painting, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy)
A visual artist and a writer, an intimate friendship that had already shared travels, words, time, stories, laughter with their husband, who were best friends too. Two women, in their forties, who have recently become mothers, who both lost their husbands, who have two different experiences, the natural moment to think artistically about how being girls together for good. What is meant by being a girl? Girls are not wise. Girls must look for wisdom. Girls look for a way to go. Girls always try. Girls are girls together.
The personal biography of the artists activates research and dialogue but never becomes the object of the narrative (the observations is on the world, not on children, not on sentimental relationships).
The work has been developed in several languages: its first place was instagram, it then developed into relational objects, workshops and today in the installation that is presented in this competition.
The artists of the collective have been developing a search for dialogue and synthesis between different languages (writing, photography, performance, sculpture) since 2016, and want to involve the public by activating a way of looking that seeks possibilities, convinced that making themselves possible is one of the traits of their relationship and what they want to produce and bring into their art.
