Ashes
by Ilaria Demo De lorenzi
Ashes is Ilaria Demo De Lorenzi’s ongoing personal project, which stems from an anthropological research on the concept of “witch” meant as founding myth of women’s freedom from the constraints of patriarchal society. The author started exploring this term from its deeply sexist, divisive historical roots, that lead to the execution of countless innocent women. […]
I Saw a Tree Bearing Stones in the Place of Apples and Pears
by Emilia Martin
Published as the winner of the Charta Award 2024 I find myself in the dusty basement of an impressive old house, filled with astronomy related antiques and mysterious objects. I am meeting yet another meteorite collector who presents to me one cosmic rock after another. “This is a fragment of the bigger one that wiped out […]
500mt Around Me
by Chiara Pavolucci
The project 500mt around me was born from my explorations of the area surrounding the house where I’ve been living for a few years, near the natural reserve of the Savio River and on the outskirts of Cesena, a typical Italian provincial town. Through the practice of walking—as a performative mode of personal reappropriation of […]
Love me
by Chiara Paderi
In Love me I tell and reconstruct, through images, a trauma suffered during childhood: abuse. I retrace a compromised and interrupted period, using a visual language that is sometimes violent, metaphorical and ironic.In “Love me” the viewer comes into contact with the story in an intimate and profound way, he has the opportunity to understand […]
Road to Black
by Giulia Madiai
What happens when the system of investigations and information begins to falter, and unproven conspiracies and theories transform into a genuine leads? Throughout history, the archetype of the Devil and the phenomenon of Satanism have been used as tools to explain events that have nothing to do with facts, exploiting mankind’s ancestral and atavistic fear […]
The Elephant’s Foot
by Edward Nurton
The Elephant’s Foot is a photographic and research project by photographer Edward Nurton that, through adopting the strategies of both fiction and documentary genres, explores the expanded boundaries of real nuclear accidents.Nurton delved into the study of the history of nuclear incidents since WW2 and, with a particular pillar of investigation on recent accidents (namely […]
Bile
by Giorgia de Bortoli
“Bile” is an ongoing project about my relationship with addiction to hard drugs in a specific time in my life.The series of images I try to present fit into a messy and disorienting narrative that communicates mostly on a perceptive level. It aims to be neither a condemnation nor an exaltation of them but a […]
Crazy Fish Sing
The project is realized thanks to the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture within the framework of Italian Council (12th edition, 2023), the program for the international promotion of Italian contemporary art. Crazy Fish Sing is a visual art book inspired by Suranga Katugampala’s forthcoming film, Still Here. […]
Paternity Ratio
by Giulio Favotto
(r)=p(G/H1)/p(G/H0)= X/Y “The examination of genetic markers within the free fetal DNA (cfDNA) extracted from the expectant woman’s blood sample and the DNA isolated from the sample named ALLEGED FATHER reveals genetic COMPATIBILITY, supporting hypotheses of paternity”. The union of XX and XY had resulted in XX expecting little h, but XX and XY were […]
The iron age
by Giulio Ielardi
Recovering metal objects, any object, is an activity that can be viewed from many perspectives. The confrontation with the material, first selected and then stripped of every functional embellishment. The memory of ancient impulses and gestures, which evoke the topos of time immemorial. The thought of sustainability, a global urgency of the contemporary world. And […]