Gyneceo

In ancient Greece the female body, considered as  the bearer of darkness and impurity, was placed in opposition to the male body, worthy of respect as with the meaning of a “political body”.

Women were therefore relegated to a hidden part of the house, exclusively reserved for them and the children. The number of women who shared the days inside it was considered as a body itself, called gynecea.

I’ve imagined this sequence of shoots inside an apartment as a representation a modern gynaeceum of women that talk to each other and to themselves during a long day spent together. The memories, the absences, the fears and the expectations of each merge in unison in the nudity of a single body, a gynecea , to which it is difficult to assign an identity, if not the same unique one deriving from their communion and fusion.