The Story of a White Dress: Bride Iconographies, Between Sacred and Profane, Starting with Pippa Bacca

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9489
Keywords: autofiction, performance, Pippa Bacca, memoir, documentary

Abstract

The present article aims at reflecting on the religious and secular signification of the bride and the white dress along Pippa Bacca’s 2008 performance Brides on Tour, which tragically ended up with the death of the artist. The focus will be less on the performance itself as on its narrative and audiovisual storytelling in the Italian and French contexts: Joël Curtz’s documentary La mariée (2012), Giulia Morello’s biography/memoir Sono innamorata di Pippa Bacca, chiedimi perché! (2015), Nathalie Léger’s autofiction/essay La robe blanche (2018) and Simone Manetti’s recent film Sono innamorato di Pippa Bacca (2019) will be taken into account. The comparison between texts that rise questions about issues in the realm of mimesis theory (such as facts/fiction; word/image) will shed light on the iconography of the white dress and its metamorphosis.

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Author Biography

Beatrice Seligardi, University of Sassari

Beatrice Seligardi is Junior Assistant Professor in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Sassari. Her research interests focus on literary theory and the relationships between literature and visual studies. She has authored three monographs: Ellissi dello sguardo. Pathosformeln dell’inespressività femminile dalla cultura visuale alla letteratura (Morellini, 2018); Finzioni accademiche. Modi e forme del romanzo accademico (Franco Cesati Editore, 2018); Lightfossil. Sentimento del tempo in fotografia e letteratura (Postmedia Books, 2020). She is part of the editorial board of Between and she is member of the governing board of Compalit (Italian Association for Theory and History of Comparative Literature).

Published
2022-11-28
How to Cite
SeligardiB. (2022). The Story of a White Dress: Bride Iconographies, Between Sacred and Profane, Starting with Pippa Bacca. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 153-169. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9489
Issue
No 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)
Section
Sezione monografica

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