Blood Speaks GB

Periods, Power and Protest

24 - 27 April 2025

3.00 - 8.00 PM

Spazio Expo

Attraverso 4 opere in realtà virtuale, l’installazione immersiva esplora le conseguenze sociali e fisiche dello stigma mestruale, dal Nepal remoto fino alla dimensione metropolitana della Londra contemporanea. Blood Speaks è un’odissea di resistenza femminile che unisce realtà e immaginario, denunciando la normalizzazione della violenza contro le donne, che in Nepal viene perpetrata in nome della tradizione con la pratica del Chaupadi, e che permane nella società contemporanea con il bullismo legato alla discriminazione di genere.

Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke

Poulomi Basu is an award winning Indian neurodiverse artist and filmmaker known for her exploration of the interrelationship between systems of power and bodies through work that exists at the limits of art, technology and activism. She focuses on the intersectionality of ecological, racial, cultural, and political issues experienced specifically by womxn of the global south. Selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough UK 2024, Basu was awarded 2023 ICP Museum Infinity Award for outstanding contribution to ‘Contemporary Photography and New Media’. Her work was nominated at Festival de Cannes 2024.

CJ Clarke is an award winning director, writer, author and producer. Crossing between narrative and experimental film, XR and installation, his work explores themes and stories at the intersection youth, identity and class. He often collaborates with other artists to enable and activate historically marginalised and socially engaged narratives. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Arts (USA), Harvard Art Museums (USA), and Victoria & Albert Museums (UK).