The Casa dei Tre Oci will inaugurate the Through women’s eyes exhibition, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, on September 10, 2015. The Casa dei Tre Oci venue on the Giudecca, in St Mark’s Basin, will house the exhibition until December 8, 2015. The work of twenty-five photographers has been chosen to direct the viewer’s gaze and mind onto a world of diversity, responsibility, compassion, and justice.

Antonio Marras has designed the exhibition’s layout in such a way as to transport the viewer into the very heart of the stories that can be read along the walls. The layout is itself an experience within the experience of the exhibition, a fundamental element in the narrative, creating a relationship between the venue’s spaces and the photographic works.

Through women’s eyes is a powerful exhibition that speaks about the care lavished on relationships, about our relationship with the other, and about ways of gazing on and observing the world—and where the premise is an innate sense of responsibility. It is also an ambitious project, underlining as it does how over the last few decades photography has opted to become a sort of world conscience, often also depicting that which has been concealed.

A woman is by definition a loving being, capable of “totally giving spirit and body” (Nietzsche, The Gay Science) with unconditional devotion. This is why the curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti has chosen female artists or authors who use photography as a means of expressing themselves and all women the world over. They are all finely attuned to perceiving the same humanity, uniqueness, and in-difference in the infinite variety of subjects they portray; their aim is to eschew the fear of diversity.