Performance/stage installation which opens a discussion on the female body, and the stereotypes that cross it and put it in tension: the artificiality weighing on the construction of the ideal of perfect, beautiful, successful «women» in social imaginary. The spotlight aims at a conflict of generic identity that takes place on the flesh, on the body itself.

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Nora has always been the rebellious main character (according to Henrik Ibsen and Elfriede Jelinek): she draws the conflict between the «pillar» of her home, following the ideal, and her inability to fulfill the expectations of others: looking like an enameled doll , ready to serve and offer pleasure.

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But now Nora has ceased to be that woman. At least physically. The spotlight aims at a conflict of generic identity that takes place on the flesh, on the body itself. She is the symbol of many bodies that are confronted with a hard question: what does it mean to be a woman? How does the body talk about fictions and artificial life forms? How is power centralized in the control of bodies, and how is it manipulated, defined, framed?

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In short, she is that new anonymous anti-heroine, forced even to feel disgust for her body de ella and, nevertheless, willing to welcome us with a smile to her slaughterhouse.

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Welcome to the exhibition.

Welcome to the kingdom of the excluded flesh.