La Forma dell'Altro

The project explores how the concept of space functions as a symbolic and political place in which relationships of dominance and subordination are called into question.

La Forma dell’Altro  addresses the theme of power distribution in gender relations by starting from an analysis of the body in space. The project explores how the concept of space functions as a symbolic and political place, where relationships of dominance and subordination are manifested, normalized, or questioned. It is not just about being in a space, but about how one is there, about who has the right to occupy it, to move through it. In this context, the body acts as a medium within a grammar that regulates the ways we relate to one another, for example, the male body is often associated with a form of legitimate expansion. In everyday life, these dynamics translate into a series of micro-hierarchies that are culturally and historically encoded, determining who can move through space without ever being challenged. Space, in this sense, becomes a technology of power a tool that shapes behaviors, produces subjectivities, and regulates access to visibility, speech, and recognition. Reflecting on who occupies space, how they occupy it, and who is allowed to invade or defend it, means questioning the internalized power structures that are repeated until they become invisible. We are not born with a way of inhabiting space, we learn it, replicate it, endure it.