Jennifer Guerra, Il corpo elettrico, 2020

“I sing the electric body / the hosts of those I love embrace me and I embrace them / they will not leave me until I go with them, respond to them / and purify them, load them full with the load of the soul”.

This is how Walt Whitman describes the human body in Leaves of Grass: the beginning and limit of all our actions, the first boundary of the universe. Today, the body placed at the centre of debate in contemporary society is that of the woman, which becomes symbolic terrain, a field on which different and opposing forces fight. In ll corpo elettrico, Jennifer Guerra traces a path from the self-consciousness of the female body to contemporary gender studies, in order to recover feminist concepts and struggles and adapt them to the new millennium: the personal that is political, self-consciousness that passes through desire and Sisterhood, through sex education and the inclusion of trans and non-binary people. At the centre of this path is the rebellious and desiring body, the Subject from which we should start again, the only good that no one can take away from us.