Exhibition curated by Daniele De Luigi

PALAZZO DEI MUSEI
Via Spallanzani 1 – Reggio Emilia
5th May- 9th July 2017

LOOP is the title chosen for the fifth edition of Giovane Fotografia Italiana public call.

Since the last decade, we have witnessed a contagious, wide use of archive photos in contemporary art, a practice consolidated in recent years as more and more pre-existing documents are integrated into newly-produced images, thanks to how these resources are easily available and accessible.

As time turns into a loop, past photographs redefine our present, while present photographs re-interpret our past and imagine our future. All together, these images end up feeding into a huge archive, which in turn shapes a new form of knowledge that is no longer rigidly organized, but open and fluid.

The idea that an old photograph constitutes an unfathomable mystery, turns into a desire to give it new life in a subjective, sometimes consciously arbitrary way, marking the decline of the conviction that photographic images are signs that can only be decoded in one way.

The seven photographic projects were selected by a jury composed of Daniele De Luigi, curator of Giovane Fotografia Italiana; Carine Dolek, Circulation(s). Festival de la Jeune Photographie Européenne; Michael Weir, Belfast Photo Festival.

Selected works

Paolo Ciregia “Exeresi” 2017

Paolo Ciregia

EXERESI

Francesco Levy “Azimuths of Celestial Bodies” 2017

Francesco Levy

AZIMUTHS OF CELESTIAL BODIES

Marco Maria Zanin “Os Argonautas” 2017

Marco Maria Zanin

OS ARGONAUTAS

Fotografia di Giorgio De Vecchi, "L'ordine delle cose" 2017

Giorgio De Vecchi

L’ORDINE DELLE COSE

Maria Paolini “In secondo luogo” 2017

Maria Paolini

IN SECONDO LUOGO

Claudia Petraroli “La pregunta de sus ojos” 2017

Claudia Petraroli

LA PREGUNTA DE SUS OJOS

Fotografia di Alba Zari

Alba Zari

THE Y