Penelope was a subversive weaver, an artist ahead of her time. She transformed the only means of expression granted to women (the loom) into a weapon of resistance. Her endless canvas was not an exercise in patience during the long wait for her adventurous husband, but a project of sabotage against the established order; it is the strategic gaze of someone who, with intelligence and cunning, governs time rather than suffering it.

Penelope is not just a mythical figure, the result of a specific vision of the world, history, and the role of women in society, the archetype of the ideal woman sculpted by the male gaze, which yesterday, as today, imposes its voice.

With the exhibition Penelope. Her Journeys, we want to nurture this extraordinary image of femininity, proposing a reversal of perspective, giving centrality to the female figure and voice to her story.

Who, then, is Penelope for the three artists, Gayle Chong Kwan, Stephanie Blake, and Kimiko Yoshida, called upon to confront the myth? She is not the emblem of obedience, but a radically different woman, seeking her own freedom, her own space for expression, and her own identity, an artist like them, who transforms experience into language. The three contemporary artists' view of this archetypal female figure gives us a complex and multifaceted interpretation of the role of women and artists today.