The second video in the series An Embroidered Trilogy, "Il Sogno di Venere" (1998), directed by Lina Wertmüller, was shot in a transvestite disco located on the outskirts of Rome. The video stars Francesco Vezzoli and Franca Valeri, the lead actress in Dino Risi's 1955 film "Il segno di Venere" that inspired the video's title.
Reclining on a divan embroidered by Italian film actress Silvana Mangano, Valeri falls asleep and dreams she is dancing onstage at a nightclub. Wearing a gown designed by Roberto Capucci, she dances to Kraftwerk's "The Model," a song about the commodification of the female body. Seated on a motorcycle, in a parody of Tom of Finland-style homosexual imagery, Vezzoli embroiders a portrait of Mangano, an Italian diva whose monochrome tapestries signal to him an inner turmoil.
Vezzoli's dislocations of roles and positions contribute to what the artist calls a "splendid, surreal debate" on the identity of women.
Il Sogno di Venere (An Embroidered Trilogy), 1998
Castello di Rivoli Museum d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Turin)
Courtesy of the artist
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