In Naples, street art pays homage to the great women of history

The streets and neighborhoods of Naples have a special atmosphere, which no other city can give back. A sort of unmistakable energy, a soul all its own, made of lights, flavours, voices. Today, the walls of the Campania capital release that vitality like never before, being colored thanks to the urban redevelopment project promoted by the cultural association Il vicolo della cultura.

THE “ALLEY OF RESILIENT WOMEN” IN NAPLES

Thus was born the Resilient Women’s Alley: a tribute to the strength, ambition, unstoppable determination of the women of our history, between past and present. In fact, on the walls of Vicoletto Donna Regina, on the corner of Via Duomo, there appear portraits of the great women who, with their talent and determination, have made Italian and non-Italian history. Their faces stand out on the street thanks to the street artist Trisha Palma and the graphics Giulia Pagano, who together have created a small and precious open-air museum, which can now be visited by anyone passing through the neighborhood. As Davide D’Errico, founder of the project, points out, the initiative constitutes a “cry of hope and a demonstration of the great strength of Naples, which despite everything continues to fight, dream, create and resist”.

FROM FRIDA KAHLO TO MICHELA MURGIA

The women chosen for this original “hall of fame” are extraordinary professionals who have shone in the most disparate fields of knowledge: from the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, feminist icon ante litteram, up to the Italian scientist and neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini, awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. And then the writer and militant activist Michela Murgia, who passed away last August 10 at the age of 51, leaving a rich legacy to her readers and an unbridgeable void in the intellectual community. Il Vicolo also pays homage to Matilde Serao, the first Italian woman to have founded and directed a newspaper, and Artemisia Gentileschi, among the first artists to have made her way in a world dominated by men, when painters were not allowed to attend academies.

Fonte: arte.sky.it