A Video by Elisa Giardina Papa at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Elisa Giardina Papa’s video work, U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale, will be screened on June 26 at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt as part of their weekly film program, Double Feature.

“Elisa Giardina Papa is an Italian artist whose work explores gender, sexuality, and labor within the context of neoliberal capitalism and the Global South’s frontiers,” reads the press release. “Her current work documents how past and present forms of capitalism have progressively depleted all capacities for work and life — including sleep, affection, and emotion — and instead focuses on all that in our lives cannot be grasped, translated, or calculated. Her film U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale (2022, 13'06'') presents a reinterpretation of the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora’ (‘women from outside and from beyond themselves’). These women were described as both magical and criminal and were said to combine the feminine and the masculine, the human and the animal, the benevolent and the vengeful.”