Events
Address
Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
Accessibility
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe metro station, Exit 2, Lines 4, 6, 12 and 13
Villa Vassilieff is accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties thanks to special facilities (access ramp, adapted toilets, and a lift).
In addition, several reserved parking spaces are available close to the Villa Vassilieff:
• in front of 4 rue d’Alençon, 75015 Paris
• in front of 7 rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris
• in front of 23 rue de l’Arrivée, 75015 Paris
Consult the map of adapted parking spaces in Paris here.
Join us at AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions on December 11 for a presentation of Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals edited by curator, writer, and former researcher-in-resdience at the Villa Vassilieff, Sonia D’Alto. This publication is the first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist, pacifist, and artist group. Le Nemesiache embodied an experimental artistic practice and a way of inhabiting the world rooted in feminism, mythology, folktales, science fiction, and radical imagination.
Published by Mousse Publishing and produced in collaboration with Marea Art Project, with the support of the Italian Council (13th edition), the book is the result of D’Alto’s research and her long-term work within the archive of Lina Mangiacapre and several participants of the collective.
The bilingual volume (Italian and English) brings together previously unpublished documents, photographs, and posters, giving special prominence to images depicting preparatory or intimate moments that highlight the processual and collective nature of their work.
The archival materials are accompanied by historical, theoretical, creative, and political contributions commissioned by the publication’s editor, and written by Chiara Bottici, Federica Bueti, Cairo Clarke, Arnisa Zeqo, Giulia Damiani, Giusi Palomba, Elvira Vannini, Giovanna Zapperi, and Sonia D’Alto.
A reasoned chronology and a selection of archival fragments intertwine with contemporary reflections ranging from ecological spirituality to the historical reconstruction of feminist solidarity networks, from transformative justice to queer artistic theories, touching as well on the Southern Question, from Italy to the Mediterranean.
The presentation of the publication at AWARE will feature Marea Art Project’s Imma Tralli and Roberto Pontecorvo in discussion with D’Alto, who will retrace the process of engaging the contributors and present a selection of archival images from the project, offering insight into significant moments in the collective’s long history.
Practical information
Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Free entry with registration here
The event will be held in English and French
Sonia D’Alto is a researcher, curator, writer, and occasional editor. She is currently a practice-based PhD candidate at HFBK Hamburg and teaches in the Curatorial Studies department at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (KASK). She has collaborated with numerous artist residencies, art institutions, and academic programs across Europe and has taken part in various collective formations. Her research focuses on Southern Italian feminisms, ecofeminist aesthetics, and transfeminist curatorial practices. She is also interested in the memories and genealogies of the South, as well as micro-histories and subaltern cosmologies. Through research curatorial work with moving images, performance, and archival work, she explores the relationships between superstition and modernity, folk tales and hegemonic power. Her writing has appeared in publications such as e-flux journal, NERO, Flash Art, Mousse, and Critique d’Art. She recently edited a book for Archive Books, and a forthcoming volume produced with her research collective examines Southern mythologies.
Marea Art Project is an international research and artist residency program founded in 2021 on the Amalfi Coast by art historian Imma Tralli and cultural manager Roberto Pontecorvo. It was conceived in dialogue with Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Director of the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, and in collaboration with Carol LeWitt, Chair of the Governing Board of the Yale University Art Gallery. The project seeks to reframe the region not as a place of temporary consumption but as a space for research, experimentation, and contemporary artistic production overlooking the Mediterranean. Among the aims of the project is the desire to bring to light the experiences of artists who were inspired by the landscape between Naples and the Amalfi Coast throughout the twentieth century, while creating connections with today’s independent feminist and queer art scene.
The project was made possible thanks to the support of the Italian Council programme (2024), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
