Maria Grazia Chiuri Instagram – Suzanne Santoro was born in Brooklyn and she came to Rome in the mid-1960s, following Mark Rothko and his family and then settled there permanently in 1971, completely fascinated by the Eternal City and Mediterranean culture. Between the 1960s and 1970s, her artistic production was intertwined with political activism, and Suzanne’s work was initially linked to the demands of the Roman feminist group Rivolta Femminile, founded in July 1970 by art critic and philosopher Carla Lonzi, artist Carla Accardi and political journalist Elvira Banotti. Suzanne Santoro’s artistic production translates into visual language the historical and personal need to respond to the ideological automatisms of contemporary narratives, with which the subordinate position of female subjectivity is established and maintained. I am happy to return to Brooklyn to celebrate this incredible artist whose life has been devoted to feminism and feminist art. Dior’s Fall Winter 2024 show at the @BrooklynMuseum is dedicated to Suzanne, paying homage to her work. Slide 1:Photo Pietro Consagra. Rome, Pietro Consagra Studio, meeting of Rivolta Femminile, from the right Suzanne Santoro, Carla Lonzi, Carla Accardi, Marta Lonzi, 1971. On background Consagra sculpture: “Giardino bianco”, painted iron, 1966. Courtesy Archivio Pietro Consagra Milan. Slide 2: From the right: Eva Menzio, Suzanne Santoro, and Edith Schloss at the house of Eva Menzio after the opening of the exhibition Un Quadro di Artemisia Gentileschi, Rome, 1976. Courtesy Suzanne Santoro and Archivia.