Enguera 2020

The project ‘Enguera’ was born from the encounter between the photographer Stephanie Gengotti and the Spanish artistic duo ‘Las Mitocondria’. Alicia Herrero and María Ángeles Vila have been engaged in developing research projects about women's traditional gender roles for the past decade.
Enguera is a place, a root, a world. The reflection on the feminine world does not fold into closed and reserved spaces but also chooses openness. The sorority and family memories leave the internal membrane to move towards the outside, the social environment.
Thus the images lead us into territory made up of a continuous alternation of everyday life and formalities, sisterhood and intimacy, nature and religion… where it is necessary to find a center of gravity in the inevitable succession and intertwining of female support through generations.
The scenic reconstruction of memories becomes an occasion for the present time. Memories become a possibility for reflection and re-appropriation.

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STEPHANIE GENGOTTI

Italy

http://www.stephaniegengotti.com/

Stephanie Gengotti is a photographer of Italian/French nationality. She has a degree in English and French Translation, a graduate diploma in photojournalism issued by the Scuola Romana di Fotografia.
"The need to establish an empathic and direct relationship often leads her to live in the same house and in the same identical daily routine as the main characters in her stories. A photograph is only the very last act, the catharsis, in a long and slow knowledge path."

She works mainly with documentary photography and portrait. Her work has been awarded and exhibited in numerous shows in Italy and abroad. Important editorial assignments and publications have included work for Internazionale, GEO Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, Stern, DER Spiegel, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, Sekai, The Guardian, Le Monde, 6 Mois, L’Espesso, Yo Dona, China Newsweek, El Mundo, Vanity Fair, IL, Il Reportage etc.

She is currently represented by Institute Artist.