ATRIUM VESTAE (Roma 2020-2021) Project curated by Simona Brusa and Micol Veller.

At the Roman forum and in particular in the House of the Vestals (Atrium Vestae), María Ángeles finds the right inspiration for this new project. The priestess, Guardian of the Sacred Fire, a sacred figure but a prisoner, idolized, but punished with death if she ever betrayed her role, struck the artist's imagination so much that she wanted to dedicate her latest work to the Vestals. The centrality of the woman has had alternating events in history and if Maria Angeles Vila has always managed to tell it also with refined irony, in the work on the vestals there is a change of direction. The fascination for the place of worship, for the statues, for the millennia of history, does not hide the terrible condition of these women, taken as children (6/10 years) from patrician families and sentenced to the temple up to 30 years.