Lisetta Carmi, Goliarda Sapienza:
The Art of Living

Name: Lisetta, Goliarda

Surname: Carmi, Sapienza

Profession: Lisetta Carmi, pianiste and photographer, Goliarda Sapienza, actress and writer.

Marta Gili and Francesca Todde cross paths to give voice to these two women, who were the voice of the voiceless: treasures salvaged from a shipwreck for the insane, the dead, children, prisoners - the most fragile among us.

Lisetta Carmi, I travestiti, Audrey, 1965-1970 - Courtesy Martini & Ronchetti

Francesca Todde is a photographer and editor. She primarily works on long-term personal projects, and her practice includes publishing and distribution in print as part of the creative process. Her research focuses on the invisible elements of relationships, sometimes intersecting stories of sharing with animals. With artist Luca Reffo, she co-founded the publishing house Départ Pour l'Image.

Francesca's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Europe. In 2021, her work was selected for Circulation(s), a festival of young European photography, and for the Cortona on the Move festival. In 2022, she held a retrospective at the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation in Arles. In 2024, a solo exhibition on her latest project IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza is hosted by the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie.

Her photographic work has been featured in international magazines and newspapers including Le Monde, Financial Times, Vogue, DLui di Repubblica, Fisheye and Zadig.

Marta Gili is a curator and independent art critic. She has been director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2006-2018), director of École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, (2019- 2023). Previously, she headed the Department of Photography and Visual Arts at the Fundació “La Caixa” in Barcelona, (1991- 2006). 

Simonetta Greggio studied at the Faculty of Arts in Padua. She moved to Paris in 1981, where she worked for several years as a journalist for Le Figaro and Télérama. She has written a dozen novels and short stories, three of which are currently being adapted for television or the cinema. She is France Culture's producer of Grandes Traversées - Virginia Woolf, 2019, Brigitte Bardot, 2020, Benito Mussolini, 2021. She collaborated on the screenplay for Julia Ducournau's film Titane, Palme d'Or Cannes 2021.