Not just sea and tuna fisheries: in Carloforte, the stories emerging from the island of San Pietro have the faces and voices of women.
They are the protagonists of the third edition of Giudicesse, the artistic residency that kicks off tomorrow, September 28th, with the Giacinta collective, ready to intertwine memory and future in a shared laboratory of storytelling and images.
The project, promoted by the Carbonia CSC of the Società Umanitaria and implemented by U-Boot Lab with the patronage of the Municipality of Carloforte and the collaboration of Ottovolante Sulcis, renews its mission: to bring female figures back to the center of Sardinian culture and history, evoking the legacy of the "judicial queens" and reflecting on gender inequality and community self-determination.
Taking up the baton this year is Giacinta, a collective made up of three multidisciplinary artists—Sara Basta, Miriam Goi, and Maria Luisa Usai—selected through the project's call.
Their research explores the intersection of ecology, intimacy, and the collective dimension, bringing together audiovisual tools and analog processes to shape practices of self-narration and community.
From September 28th to October 10th, the artists will work with the women of Carloforte on a journey where the everyday lives of women, often overshadowed by the male figures in the island's tradition, will be told through images, sounds, objects, and personal stories.
A shared camera will become a tool for self-representation, while the island's natural materials—grasses, seaweed, seawater—will become part of the artisanal processes that give shape to the work.
"The stories we wish to collect," the artists explain , "are not made up of heroic gestures, but of everyday actions that connect work, care, and lived spaces to collective memory. It is there that the traces of the relationship between community and environment lie hidden."
The residency will conclude on Friday 10 October with a public restitution open to the community : a collective moment that will return to the territory the images, voices and fragments of shared memory collected during the creative process.
