Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award
Marina Caneve, Giulia Mangione, Giulia Parlato, Iacopo Pasqui, Vaste Programme
Curated by Ilaria Campioli and Daniele De Luigi
An exhibition supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in London
Italian Cultural Institute in London
39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX
MAY 15 – 31, 2024
FROM 9 AM TO 5 PM
Opening Party | Tuesday 14th of May 2024, at 6.30 pm, at the Italian Cultural Institute in London
This photography exhibition presents a selection of works from past winners of the Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Luigi Ghirri Award since the award was founded in 2018. The works are part of the collection of the same name housed at Panizzi Library (Photo Library) in Reggio Emilia.
In the framework of Photo London Fair 2024, What We Already Think We Know will be displayed for the first time in the UK supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
The five selected projects are by Marina Caneve (Are They Rocks or Clouds?, 2018-2019), Iacopo Pasqui, (N, 2018-2021), Giulia Parlato (Diachronicles, 2019-2022), Giulia Mangione (The Fall, 2021-2022), and Vaste Programme (The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver, 2019-2020). In all of these works, the photographers explore the main themes of contemporaneity as well as the very nature of the medium itself. Thanks to an artistic and trans-media approach, the projects focus on the complex relationship with nature and the environment, the province, the young people who inhabit it, and the collective fears of society, and they include the use of archival materials.
Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Luigi Ghirri Award is a project by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia dedicated to the discovery and enhancement of emerging talents in photography in Italy. The format includes a free open call – aimed at artists under 35 – to submit a photographic project devoted to researching the edition’s theme. An international commission selects the works, which, thanks to an economic contribution allocated to the artists, are produced and exhibited in a collective exhibition included in the programme of the Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia.
Over the years, Giovane Fotografia Italiana has become a privileged observation point on the state of photographic research and development in the medium, supporting its most advanced research. Thanks to the call Strategia Fotografia 2023, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, it has been possible to initiate the Collection, placing alongside it an initial nucleus of works acquired from 2016, a more structured corpus, through the acquisition of the five projects that won the Luigi Ghirri Award.
A unique opportunity to discover the best Italian contemporary artists and their cutting-edge works in the photography medium.
