April 26 – June 9, 2024
PALAZZO DEI MUSEI
Via Spallanzani, 1 – Reggio Emilia
Giovane Fotografia Italiana #11 | Luigi Ghirri Award
CONTAMINATIONS
hours
26th april: 7.30 pm – 11 pm
27th april: 10 am -11 pm
28th april: 10 am -8 pm
from april 30th until june 9th: friday, saturday, sunday and holidays 10 am -8 pm
Group exhibition curated by Ilaria Campioli and Daniele De Luigi
If “the planet is an enormous and collective garden where we cultivate each other” (Emanuele Coccia), is then the contemporary image able to show new possible interactions between humans (as individuals, communities, species) and the rest of the living beings, based on relations that are not founded on superiority and domination, but rather exploring intermediate areas, zones of contamination, of mutual transformation?
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
For the last eleven years Giovane Fotografia Italiana (Young Italian Photography) has been the project of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia aimed at supporting the work of emerging artists who use the photographic medium to elaborate on the role played by Photography in today’s visual culture as well as in the perception of contemporary world issues.
Contaminations is the theme of the eleventh edition of the festival. The climate emergency is increasingly pushing contemporary thoughts towards questioning the anthropocentric paradigm that has characterized recent centuries. We are moving away from the belief that nature is a space of otherness made for mankind, at our service, a pristine place of goodness and beauty, a refuge to escape to, or a resource to exploit and adapt. What is emerging though is the idea that nature does not exist as a biologically-determined primordial condition, and that the entire planet is the result of a transformative process carried out by a multitude of subjects, each of whom should be recognized as having configurative ability and will.
If “the planet is an enormous and collective garden where we cultivate each other” (Emanuele Coccia), is then the contemporary image able to show new possible interactions between humans (as individuals, communities, species) and the rest of the living beings, based on relations that are not founded on superiority and domination, but rather exploring intermediate areas, zones of contamination, of mutual transformation? Are there images that can help us go beyond the binary reductionism of city and nature, control and anarchy, normal and different, useful and useless, taking us to the intermediate space where things are ambiguous, uncertain, shifting and differing?
The project is carried out thanks to the European Funds of the Emilia-Romagna Region
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