When we talk about the representation of bodies in visual arts, those bodies almost always belong to women. Why is the artistic body feminine? 
While analysing the lives and works of different artists - Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Ceija Stojka, Mona Hatoum, and many others - critic and scholar Maria Nadotti tells the story of bodies who have tried to define themselves.

Two cartoonists, each representing a different generation and a different way of making comics - one explicitly political, one deeply intimate - reflect on comics as a language capable of giving shape to things that do not have one: love, loss, the passing of time.

The characters invented by Alex Bodea, Max Baitinger and Émilie Gleason share a certain discomfort in their relationship with space. After all, space is both a source of possibility and frustration in comics: it allows movement, but at the same time it creates limitations to it. They discuss the meaning of borders in comics with visual arts scholar Ilaria Tontardini.

Becoming is the verb of science-fiction: a literary genre capable of describing human bodies through a "naturalcultural" framework, to use the word invented by Donna Haraway. Starting from her experience as a reader and translator, Claudia Durastanti examines several novels and their female characters to discuss the new visions of science-fiction. 

The cold digital interiors described by Ana Galvañ in Press Enter to Continue (Fantagraphics) and the dizzying biological regeneration depicted by Linnea Sterte in Stages of Rot (Peow!) are two complementary ways to imagine our future. They discuss their visions with Claudia Durastanti, writer and translator of feminist philosopher Donna Haraway.

In Nicoz's art, journaling and autobiography become a frantic, passionate and ironic reflection on identity, relationships, and the joy and struggles of human existence. Everything in their work - illustrations, pyrographs, journals or even tattoos - is part of an uninterrupted journey in which everyday life and creative practice become a unique object.