A newly opened exhibition in Turin is highlighting the work of 13 artists with intellectual disabilities from the Eisenberg Collection.
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00:00One of the things really important here is that the two issues in the disability community
00:30are access and visibility. And so this exhibition really focuses on visibility, how to actually
00:39show art that has been made here primarily in America, sometimes in Britain, some in
00:44South Africa. But there's a burgeoning arts and disability movement that has grown over
00:50the last 30 years and become really quite significant. And so now we have a body of
00:55work to show for that. And many of the artists we show here today are in some of the major
01:01collections like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for example.
01:25I think the issue for people who are neurodivergent is always prejudice and ignorance. And one
01:50way to overcome that is to actually make visible how people speak, what people speak
01:56with. And art's a great vehicle for that because it has a universal appeal. The world is made
02:03up of many, many individuals with very different perspectives, with very specific experiences.
02:11But it can be expressed through art.