The Municipality of Brescia and the Brescia Musei Foundation, directed by Stefano Karadjov, present for the first time in Italy, in the setting of the Museum of Santa Giulia, a solo exhibition of the Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan (Diyarbakir, Turkey, 1989).

"We will also have better days - Zehra Doğan. Works from Turkish prisons" is an original project curated by Elettra Stamboulis and constitutes the first exhibition of a critical curatorial system dedicated to the work of the founder of the Kurdish feminist journalist agency " Jinha " and will be open to public from Saturday 16 November 2019 to 6 January 2020. After the great success of the performance organized last May at the Tate Modern in London, the city where Zehra Doğan temporarily chose to live her exile, the artist is now the protagonist in Brescia of a powerful exhibition, on the occasion of his participation in the Peace Festival, organized by the Municipality of Brescia and the Province of Brescia.

The art of this artist intersects and intertwines with the personal story and, inevitably, with the dramatic political events of the most pressing topicality. The exhibition sheds light on his poetics, addressing its recurring themes and motifs, highlighting its linguistic complexity and showing the wide range of media and techniques used to produce works of art: unusual objects, extremely fragile, but of great expressive power.

The exhibition path conceived by Elettra Stamboulis brings together about 60 unpublished works, including drawings, paintings and mixed media works , which cover the entire period of the artist's detention in the prisons of Mardin, Diyarbakir and Tarso, where Zehra was locked up for 2 years , nine months and 22 days accused of terrorist propaganda for having posted on Twitter a watercolor taken from a photograph taken by a Turkish soldier. This digital drawing showed the city of Nusaybin destroyed by the national army in June 2016 with flags raised and triumphant, and armored vehicles transformed into scorpions.