Colostro
Maximilian Tower and island of Sant'Erasmo, Venice, Italy
Curated with Giulia Galiano

"Colostro” involved 19 artists (including 2 collectives) in a exhibition path distributed around the island of Sant'Erasmo, in the northern part of Venice lagoon. The Colostrum is the first breast milk, a biological liquid constantly evolving; it is the first food that the child takes, a substance from the outside containing antibodies and vitamins, according to the needs of the unaware newborn. The new life encounters the first spontaneous developments in response to needs, desires, and a first relational approach with his personal shared existence. This term has become the content pivot from which all the artists involved have found a starting point to share a vision, to bear witness, and orchestrate their intervention, offering a part of their life to an archipelagic path.  Along with the exhibition  various  events had been organized:  a poetry festival,  performative interventions and a talk with  an iconography’s expert  on the engraving  “Madonna del latte”  sculpted on the island.  Through a collaboration with Venice municipality,   on Sant’Erasmo island was activated  the “Vaporetto Rosa” ,  a free service for breast cancer screening.