ANDREA BOWERS AT FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO, TURIN, IT

The gallery is glad to announce La Ragnatela, a solo exhibition by Andrea Bowers curated by Bernardo Follini, opening on October 29, 2026 at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT.

The exhibition presented at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo traces Bowers’ longstanding interest in ecofeminism, with a particular focus on the anti-nuclear and disarmament feminist movements of the 1980s. The exhibition presents a selection of existing works alongside a new cycle of works. The pieces belong to some of the artist’s most renowned formats, from cardboards, made with recycled materials to celebrate feminist histories of the past; to political ribbons, installations composed of coloured ribbons bearing activist slogans that visitors are invited to take away; to neons, which combine political symbols and iconography with historical and contemporary quotations.

A core group of new works is devoted to the experience of the Italian anti-nuclear feminist movement, and specifically to the Campo delle donne (Women’s Camp) in Comiso, Sicily, launched in 1983 under the name La Ragnatela (“The Spiderweb”). The initiative emerged in protest against the installation of a NATO military base in Comiso, at Magliocco Airport, and in support of the movement for nuclear disarmament. La Ragnatela represents one of the most significant ecofeminist experiences in Italy and was established in close connection with the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in UK, founded in 1981. Alongside a series of new neon works inspired by La Ragnatela, the exhibition will present rare archival documents, made available through the involvement of a network of activists and researchers, including historical members of the group. The exhibition sheds light on an important feminist contribution to the peace movement and to the struggle for disarmament—an issue that has once again become an urgent concern in today’s global context—while recovering and reconnecting the dense historical network of transnational alliances.

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