A Feminine Lexicon is an online exhibition curated by Pia Diamandis and Elena Tortelli, students in Arts Curating at Istituto Marangoni Firenze for Museo Salvatore Ferragamo.

The curatorial project A Feminine Lexicon took inspiration from Women in Balance – the new exhibition by Museo Salvatore Ferragamo ­– and stems from a proposal made by the Museum to invite Arts Curating students at Istituto Marangoni Firenze to imagine a contemporary response to Women in Balance. 

While Women in Balance celebrates the history of Italian women during the economic boom, a historical moment of rapid changes for women’s role in society, A Feminine Lexicon continue the conversation of what is considered feminine today.

The curators searched for a challenging balance between the traditional model of femininity and a newer identity in their private and public life, within the family and at work. 

The urgency of these themes, still relevant today, has allowed the Arts Curating students to create a new curatorial reflection, to continue to observe the changes around female identity in the present.

The online exhibition A Feminine Lexicon gathers artworks from eleven international contemporary feminine artists to start a collective conversation on language and identity.

Visit A Feminine Lexicon at museo.ferragamo.com to experience the works of the following artists: Monia Ben Hamouda, Stacey Gillian Abe, Helena Hladilová, Lebohang Kganye, ChongYan Liu, Reba Maybury, Alfiah Rahdini, Haruka Sakaguchi, Griselda San Martin, Johanna Toruño, Alice Visentin.

Credits: Lebohang Kganye, Still frame from Pied Piper’s Voyage, 2014, animated film, 3’26’’, music by Auntie Flo and Esa Williams. © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist