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. Since the time of Homer's myth, Penelope has emerged as a figure fighting for her own self determination.