FLORENCE. The Florence Biennale Facebook page for over a month. International exhibition of contemporary art and design, which will be held in Florence from 23 to 31 October, is no longer visible. The suspension, according to the organizers, is due to the programming of some posts on the finalists of the International Open Call Competition, focused on the theme of femininity: the works of the Italian artist Teresa Letizia Bontà and the Spanish Gloria Marco Munuera have been deemed offline with Facebook standards, because they portray bare breasts, a drop of milk falls from one.
“This censorship, the daughter of Facebook algorithms which unfortunately replaced human controls, is heavily damaging the exhibition, one of the few in Italy that was saved from the Covid effect”, the organizers complain in a statement. “Although Florence Biennale has repeatedly requested control and human intervention by Facebook – we read again -, the managers of the social network continue to hide and show standardized system messages, regardless of the damage they are causing to a cultural event of international reach and to all the artists involved “. «I am a new mother artist – said Marco Munuera – who created a work inspired by the connection between the cry of her newborn and the outflow of milk that the breast produces as a response to the baby’s call. I find it offensive that the Facebook platform has misunderstood the image of my work Il Canto della Via Lattea, denying me the possibility of spreading the work with which I participate in the Florence Biennale, whose theme of this edition is precisely femininity ».