Reversing institutional hierarchies, the inmates of the Casa di Reclusione Femminile della Giudecca, an Italian women’s prison located in the former monastery of the Convertite have briefed and commissioned Curnier Jardin to reshape the interior of the parlour of the prison, and to create a new film: Adoration. The film was developed through collective script writing and the animation of the inmates’ drawings and self-portrait pictures. It had premiered on the big screen of the permanent installation in the parlour of the prison. The redecoration of the parlour was inspired by Black Narcissus, a 1947 British psychological drama revolving around the growing tensions and desires within a small convent of Anglican nuns who are trying to establish a school in the old palace of an Indian Raja at the top of an isolated mountain in the Himalayas.

Credits:
First Assistant: Martina Silvi
Animation and Design: Kryštof Kučera, Simona Koutna
Editing: Benni Atria
Music remix: Isaac Cugini, Antonio Giannantonio
Original Track: Real Miracolo (Rome)
Sound editing and post-production sound: Antonio Giannantonio
Canto: Le Suore Clarisse di Catania
Coro: Le Convertite, Susanna, Vania, Pauline and Mariana
Styling: DROMe
Subtitles: Chiara Siravo
Production and Coordination Manager: Vanessa Saraceno
Producer: LIAF – Lofoten International Art Festival
In collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht, Rio Terà dei Pensieri, Zuecca Projects, Casablanca Studio, DROMe, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, ChertLüdde
With the drawings of: Igli, Susie, Marianna, Lidia, Jennifer, Sara, Sabrina and Susanna
Special Thanks: Dir. Immacolata Mannarella, Marta Colle, Margherita Inio, Elisa Caldarola and Dr. Christine Scippa Bahsin.
Courtesy of the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin and Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam