benio
Coal - carbone
Veruska Bellistri
La mostra prende il nome dalla poesia della scrittrice Afro-Americana Audre Lorde. Dipingere e fare collage di Donne Nere significa rappresentare l'esotismo, il razzismo e l'invisibilità in cui queste donne sono confinate. Significa rivisitare i confini d'appartenenza e sradicare gli arnesi del padrone.
Coal
I
is the black, being spoken
from the earth's inside.
there are many kinds of open
how a diamond comes into a knot of flame
how sound comes into a word, coloured
by who pays for speaking.Some words are open like a diamond
on glass windows
singing out within the passing crash of sun.
Then there are words like stapled wagers
in a perforated book, -buy and sign and tear apart-
and come whatever wills all chances
the stub remains
an ill-pulled tooth with a ragged edge.
Some words live in my throat
breeding like adders. Others know sun
seeking like gypsies over my tongue
to explode through my lips
like young sparrows bursting from shell
Some words
bedevil me.Love is a word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes into a knot of flames
I am Black because i come from the earth's inside
now i take my word for jewel in the open light.Audre Lorde
My name is not nigger
La frontera
Sister outsider
Invisibility
