Authentic Self

Authentic Self
An editorial and artistic project celebrates diversity and unconventional beauty, crossing cultural and gender boundaries. The exhibited works embody a new aesthetic free from traditional norms
30 Jun-30 Jul 2021
Vernissage
Wednesday 30 Jun 2021 17:30-21:30
Kou Gallery
Via della Barchetta, 13 - 00186 Roma
360

Miriam Alè, Evita Andujar, Baco, Matteo Basilè, Jordi A. Bello Tabbi, Benedetta Cari, Clelia Catalano, Paolo Cenciarelli, Milly Cope, Angelo Cricchi, Ilaria D’Atri, Fabio Lovino, Angelo Marinelli, Efisio Rocco Marras, Jacopo Paglione, Simone Passeri, Caterina Silva, Albertine Simonet, Ursu.

The idea behind this exhibition is to celebrate the release of the fifth volume of the magazine FLEWID, titled “Authentic Self”, which features the stories of Alba and Luca Trapanese, Chadia Rodriguez, Cosima, Extraweg, Gabriel Montesi, Gaia Weiss, Giuseppe Dave Seke, Jenny De Nucci, MamboLosco, Roberta Mattei and Madior Fall, Sveva Basirah Balzini.

FLEWID seeks beauty where most see irregularity or imperfection; it is an urgency to tell unknown stories, a celebration of existence across ages, abilities, and bodies.

FLEWID is an incubator of talents who pursue their research across the territories of fashion, photography, and art, unafraid to cross set boundaries to reach unexplored lands. Its name comes from merging two words: “FLEW” (the simple past of the English verb “Fly”) and “ID,” the Freudian part of the psyche that generates desire. “Flew-Id” thus evokes those impulses of the Id that, once set free and allowed to fly beyond mental or social barriers, lead to deeper psychological fulfillment.

FLEWID is a book and magazine published by a transgender editor, Emi Marchionni, with the essential collaboration of Angelo Cricchi (Creative Director), Giulio Cascini (Fashion Director), and Jordi A. Bello Tabbi (Art Director).

FLEWID explores, discovers, and expresses the concept of “non-conventional beauty” through stories about people and the ways they shape their personal development, aiming to define a new aesthetic — no gender, no mainstream — and to create a new vision in which diversity is no longer a fashionable niche but a captivating and evolving portrait of reality.

The works on display are a selection of the creations and authors featured in the first five volumes of the magazine and its online edition.

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