Art as therapy in the photographs of Nidaa Badwan

Art as therapy, as an escape from the individualism that reigns in modern society. For Nidaa Badwan, a Palestinian artist with Italian citizenship, currently living in the Marche region, art is a way to soothe existential pain. The artist takes up a traditional Arab belief according to which each person carries with them a heavy legacy resulting from the emotional past of seven generations of matrilineal ancestry. This inheritance is also mixed with the emotions and moods transmitted directly from the mother to the child during the gestation period. To rebel against a condition not chosen, to emancipate herself from the darkness of suffering and break the chain of heredity, the artist aspires to her own rebirth which becomes an universal theme. At the Galleria Fumagalli, Nidaa Badwan's first solo exhibition exhibits a previously unpublished series of photographs that symbolically retrace the artist's intimate experience from her conception in 1986 to her birth in 1987.