This the sixth Dialogue of the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue among women who write their destiny. A dialogue between two photographs that mark the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I invite you to enter this vortex of light and to follow us in our next appointments.
She is the butterfly, she is the fire, she is the light, she is heaven and the stars. She is Loïe Fuller in the words of her lover, Gab Sorère. Loïe is a woman who loves women, and in the whirlwind of silk veils that surround her she is a creature in the making, the woman who is becoming the new woman of the late nineteenth century. Before then no one had ever seen desire and pathos take such free and exuberant forms, almost already abstract. And before Fuller, no artist had made of herself her total, scenic work of art, where the fabric dotted with fluorescent radio, with which Loïe was dressed, dictated an unprecedented story of freedom in the dark. The Art Nouveau of self-determination.
