Helen Cammock , winner of the seventh edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and nominated for the Turner Prize 2019, after her first stop in London at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (25 June - 1 September 2019), presents the new exhibition "What can be done" at the Maramotti Collection, which will acquire the works.

The exhibition, reworked by the artist in the different space of the Collection, will also be enriched by an artist's book created in July at the Central Institute of Graphics in Rome. In Helen Cammock's work, female narrative focused on loss and resilience intertwines with Baroque music composed of seventeenth-century musicians, inspirations and stories through which the artist has explored the concept of lament in women's lives through stories and geographies.

In addition to the recently created artist's book, the exhibition includes a film, a series of vinyl recordings, a screen- printed frieze and a research room where books and objects collected by Cammock and donated to her during her time in Italy are exhibited.

The exhibition is in fact the result of a six-month Italian residency in 2018, organized by Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti, and designed to suit the artist. On her journey, which led her to make a stop in Bologna, Florence, Venice, Rome, Palermo and Reggio Emilia, Cammock decided to explore the expression of lament and rediscover hidden female voices. During the residency, musicians, historians, artists and singers opened their archives and shared stories and research. The three-part video that is at the heart of the exhibition consists of interviews with some of the women Cammock met on his journey, including social activists, migrants, refugees, a nun and women who fought the dictatorship. The work evokes the power of female voices from the Baroque era to Italy today . Their testimonies are interspersed with music and films shot in Italy in a complex visual and oral collage.

Five saturated color prints represent music and voice through line drawings and a long wall frieze contains images and words related to the women Cammock met in Italy.