Letizia Battaglia. Without End
Seventy images to retrace the extraordinary career of the great photographer Letizia Battaglia. Until October 26th, the Palazzo di Città in Cagliari hosts 'Letizia Battaglia Senza fine' with iconic and lesser-known images.
The exhibition, curated by Palo Falcone and organized by Electa in collaboration with the Letizia Battaglia Archive and the Falcone Foundation for the Arts, is promoted by the Municipality of Cagliari with the collaboration of the Sardegna Foundation.
Letizia Battaglia is recognized as one of the leading figures in international photography history. She is universally remembered for her courage, demonstrated during her collaboration with the newspaper L'Ora di Palermo, for the images captured during the bloody mafia wars of the Seventies and Eighties.
Photography for Letizia Battaglia is an important tool for her emancipation as a woman and a mother. Over time, she realizes the social and denouncing role that photography can play in society.
'Senza Fine' is a tribute to Letizia Battaglia. The exhibition - while offering a unified vision of five decades of work - follows her way of breaking the norms with a unique project distributed across multiple spaces, showcasing a wide selection of photographs that narrate the various aspects of her photography in a timeless, non-chronological, and thematic way.
'Senza Fine' is a constellation of works by Letizia Battaglia that explore the main themes of her career. This exhibition in Cagliari continues the tradition of breaking norms, ignoring themes, disregarding chronologies, and constructing a polyphonic work that offers a unified vision of nearly five decades of work.
'Senza Fine' is also a tribute to the architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) and the exhibition she designed in 1968 for the art collection of MASP-Museu de arte de São Paulo in Brazil, where she suspended works with glass easels. For Palazzo di Città, the crystals become a suspended forest, with double-sided large-format photographs, creating an open, non-vertical, and non-hierarchical installation of photographic works.
Letizia Battaglia's most famous images document one of the most poetic, poignant, and dramatic pages of Sicilian history. But this exhibition aims to open up to a universe of photographs taken outside her homeland, essential stops in her travels to deepen our understanding of her work and thoughts. Photography, reporting, and private life merge into a single path, highlighting the extraordinary sensitivity and humanity of the photographer from Palermo. A selection of works created at the psychiatric hospital is dedicated to her city, where Battaglia involved and showcased the patients. A meeting that she has renewed several times over the years. Graziella from 1983 is one of these shots and opens the exhibition.
