If the eighteenth century was the Age of Reason, the nineteenth the era of revolutions, and the twentieth, the short lasting century, was the age of extremes, then the early twenty-first is still characterized by the revolutions that began at the end of the past century. The end of the Cold War and the invention of the Internet exponentially increased opportunities for encounters outside geographical, social, and family boundaries. This, by means of a global dialog, has accelerated the emergence of an increasing number of “brand new forms of being” as written by Luigina Mortari, and ways in which these are shared.
This age of identity coincides with the actual age of the project curators, Pia Diamandis and Elena Tortelli, who were born between 1999 and 2000. As they are now begining to construct their own critical gaze, they chose without hesitation the role of language as the key theme in creating and forging identity. And now, in this new decade that has just begun, not even the various periods of isolation and restrictions on our contacts have halted this nourishing and transformational dialog. In fact, quite the opposite. The continual hum of our conversations—digital and mediated—has now come to saturate the very air that we breathe, obscuring and extending the horizon of the ego beyond its traditional boundaries. Not by chance, A Feminine Lexicon is the result of a dialog between international women artists and curators, conducted via the Internet. The aim of the project, which was immediately agreed on together with the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, was involving feminine artists from different backgrounds and cultures, expanding the geographical boundaries in order to offer a broad-ranging vision regarding the issues raised in the Women in Balance exhibition. These include the family, the image of women in the media, conflicts between public and private life, gender relations, sexuality, and the dialog between different generations.
By bringing together different identities and individual stories within the same curatorial setting, an attempt has been made to create a transnational lexicon that is heterogeneous and incomplete, but able to home in on multiple aspects of contemporary women’s identities.

The digital exhibition is developed through various sections, three different lexicons chosen to highlight three subjects shared amongst the featured artists: the kins, the representations, and the struggles of feminine identities today.