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The show

On the occasion of the eleventh year of collaboration with ENSBA Lyon – École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation hosts the two-person exhibition "RAW", the first presentation in Italy of Félixe T. Kazi-Tani and Sido Lansari, participating artists at the 2023 edition of the Post-diplôme. The program is a postgraduate research path for the arts organized by the French school, coordinated by the curator Oulimata Gueye and open to five artists each year.


“RAW” exhibits new productions by Félixe T. Kazi-Tani and Sido Lansari, conceived and created specifically for the spaces of Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene. At the heart of the dialogue lies an exploration of the relationship between the body, food and sexuality. Over the past decades, food culture and animal consumption have been extensively investigated from philosophical and activist perspectives, allowing for the delineation of the connections between human and animal oppressive systems. Since the publication in 1990 of Carol J. Adams' now classic "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" the international debate has fire the power relations that animate the field of cooking and the practice of eating meat as a rite of production of virility. Placing itself within this critical tradition, "RAW" tries to answer the question: "When does a body become flesh?". "RAW" explores the relationship between nutrition and erotic consumption, confronting the processes of sexualization of animal food and animalization of bodies in the sexual sphere, highlighting their intersections on the basis of gender, class and race categories.


The artists are united by a practice of exploring archives in an attempt to recompose historical dynamics of oppression and collective strategies of autonomy. Starting from a transfeminist perspective, Félixe T. Kazi-Tani investigates culinary culture as a codified performative system, in which the social control guaranteed by etiquette coincides with patriarchal and heteronormative domination. Feeding his research through a baker's practice and an extensive bibliography of cookery books and pamphlets from the last two centuries, the artist is interested in showing how much food and culinary practices are crossed by both the ethics of care and hegemonic violence .Sido Lansari employs the practice of embroidery to mend events connected to the sexuality of the Arab queer communities in France. Focusing on the language contained in 1980s magazines dedicated to sex ads, Lansari explores the fetishization of Arab bodies and the processes of racialization in the field of sexuality. The title of the exhibition "RAW" refers on the one hand to raw meat, as a symbolic referent of male domination, on the other hand it is inspired by the film of the same name by French director Julia Ducournau (Raw), a disturbing horror film centered on the relationship between sexuality and cannibalism.

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12050 Guarene

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