On the Verge is the new exhibition opening at CAMERA in its Project Room from 4 November 2022 to 8 January 2023. It features a group show investigating the major themes of our time, comprising over 70 works produced by seven young photographers selected from the FUTURES Photography network, of which CAMERA is the only Italian representative in a network of some 20 European partners.
The projects featured by Cian Burke (Ireland, 1978), Mark Duffy (Ireland, 1981), Pauline Hisbacq (France, 1980), Julia Klewaniec (Poland, 1996), Alice Pallot (France, 1995), Daniel Szalai (Hungary, 1991) and Ugo Woatzi (France, 1991) tell personal and collective stories concerning conflicts, struggles for gender equality, food and ecological sustainability, and the rise of populism and nationalism throughout Europe. At the same time, from an aesthetic point of view and in terms of photographic languages, these works represent the most innovative and relevant experiences in the current European photography panorama.
The European programme FUTURES (EPP – European Photography Platform) is a research platform on contemporary photography supported by the European Union and focused on mapping and supporting emerging authors beyond national borders.
In addition to CAMERA, the platform’s only Italian institution, the FUTURES partners are Bienal Fotografia, Porto; Centre Photographique Rouen, Normandy; Copenhagen Photo Festival; Der Greif, Munich; FOMU Fotomuseum, Antwerp; Fotodok, Utrecht; Fotofestiwal, Lodz; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Fotograf Magazine, Prague; ISPP, Riga; Organ Vida, Zagreb; PHotoEspaña, Madrid; Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca; PhotoIreland, Dublin; Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest; Triennale der Photographie Hamburg; and Void (Athens).
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Eurokleis is a platform partner.
This years FUTURES annual event of will be hosted by CAMERA in Turin. Coinciding with the Turin Contemporary Art Week, from 4 to 6 November, one hundred artists, twenty curators and heads of major international contemporary photography institutions will be guests at CAMERA for the Annual Event of the European FUTURES Photography platform.
The FUTURES Annual Event offers a calendar of events that will take place over the three days, with appointments exclusively for the artists selected in 2022, alternating with other public events. Among these, the most important is the exhibition ON THE VERGE, curated by Giangavino Pazzola, in collaboration with Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen and Marta Szymańska, which will open to the public on Friday 4 November, in CAMERA’s Project Room.
A programme full of events on photography and contemporary visual research that also includes numerous moments of sociability and encounter between the community of artists and the public in collaboration with Centralino, Square Comunicazione and PopUp Date. Aperitifs, DJ sets and music, all under the aegis of contemporary photography, young talent and internationality.
Exhibition that brings together the works of the photographers selected after the call for Futures Photography.
Maija Savolainen, Carlos Alba, Hien Hoang, Emily Graham, Eva Kreuger, Marta Bogdanska, Alexey Shlyk, Valeria Cherchi, Io Sivertsen, Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond Skeaping and Jean Vincent Simonet have been selected by the Festival and will become part of this platform that promotes the mobility and visibility of emerging photographers.
After a year of comings and goings and uncertainties, the current reality is anything but balanced. Waves of counter narratives continue to flourish and subvert our knowledge base, altering all the parameters that marked the sense of being and belonging.
In Europe, the new generations try to promote a new cultural literacy. Although it seems difficult to be able to define a direction in such a cluttered environment. Within this climate of hybrid experimentation, we are witnessing new realities being forged every day. What new ways of doing, narrating and understanding are here to stay, and what can we do with the horizon that lies ahead?
These eleven artists will explore these questions in this exhibition. These photographers were selected through an open call among the authors who are part of the platform Futures Photography, created in 2018. PHotoESPAÑA selected Carlos Alba who joins the rest of the authors selected by the rest of the European institutions that are part of this project.
A hybrid proposal in which, from different media, in dialogue with photography, the impact of technology and photography on Humanity and the natural world is investigated.
Eleonora Agostini, Matteo de Mayda, Leonardo Magrelli, Giulia Parlato and Silvia Rosi are the five photographers chosen this year for Futures by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia and have been involved in activities along with another seventy artists from various European countries: they have taken part in workshops with photographers of international calibre, as well as numerous professional encounters at the Futures Photography Festival in Amsterdam. And now, thanks to a partnership with five independent spaces around Turin, in Italy, they will be able to showcase their work from the end of November through until mid-March 2022.
The spaces involved in this synergic cooperation process – Almanac Inn, Cripta747, Jest, Mucho Mas! and Recontemporary – are non-profit organisations working towards the promotion of new talents and the languages of contemporary art on the national and international scene. CAMERA asked each of them to host a solo exhibition, respectively by Eleonora Agostini, Matteo De Mayda, Leonardo Magrelli, Giulia Parlato and Silvia Rosi, delegating to the individual organisations the contact with the artists, as well as the conception, development and production of the exhibition.
THE PROGRAMME:
Leonardo Magrelli @ Jest
Via Bernardino Galliari 15/D, 10125, Turin
24 November 2021 – 23 January 2022
Jest is a space given over to photographic culture, operating through the organisation of exhibitions of national and international artists, courses and educational activities, events and presentations. A point of reference and a place of exchange for all lovers of the visual arts, Jest interprets photography both as an expressive and narrative medium, and as a language and democratic communication tool for the construction of a more aware, critical and participatory civil society.
Leonardo Magrelli presents a preview of his most recent work, The Plant, which is still in the expansion phase. The exhibition reflects the potential nature of the evolving work, adopting an open, fragmented and combinatorial approach that invites the viewer to interact with the images, recomposing them within customisable and ever-changing publications. The photographs thus lose their entirety and fixity, presenting a jagged dimension of the image, where individual details alternate, almost to the point of abstraction.
Silvia Rosi @ Recontemporary
Via Gaudenzio Ferrari 12, 10124, Turin
15 December 2021 – 4 February 2022
Founded in 2018 to explore the impact of digital technologies in contemporary art, Recontemporary aims to build an active and participatory community, making audiovisual languages more accessible. Through exhibitions, workshops and laboratories with schools, this cultural reality fosters collaboration and dialogue between institutions and artists on the international scene in order to offer an increasingly complete and up-to-date vision of a constantly evolving art form.
Silvia Rosi’s exhibition, held in the spaces in Via Gaudenzio Ferrari and split into three video works, retraces a key theme from the photographer’s artistic research: the deployment of memory as a means of handing down traditions and the reproduction of movements to stimulate recollection. Rosi thus analyses her family’s origins and their experience of migration from Togo to Italy, taking up the ancestral memories of her own roots.
Giulia Parlato @ Mucho Mas!
Corso Brescia 89, 10154, Turin
14 January – 27 February 2022
Mucho Mas! is an artist-run space founded in 2018 by Luca Vianello and Silvia Mangosio. A place for meetings and experimentation, sharing and research. Since its opening, Mucho Mas! has hosted emerging and mid-career artists, both from Italy and abroad, bringing back a transversal and experimental approach to contemporary imagery.
Diachronicles (2019–2021) is a project by Giulia Parlato that recounts the absence of memory and the central role that archaeology, photography and the museum take on in the fabrication of collective history. The exhibition focuses on a more installation-based approach, telling the story of the intricate and complex world the artist creates through her imagery.
Eleonora Agostini @ Almanac Inn
Via Reggio 13, 10153, Turin
4 February – 4 March 2022
Almanac Inn is a non-profit organisation that aims to develop the artistic research of emerging artists, to promote art as an educational medium and facilitate exchanges between young international artists, local audiences, institutions and art professionals. Founded as a programme parallel to Almanac Projects in London, the platform is delivered as a series of residencies and exhibitions guided by critical research.
A Study On Waitressing is the latest project in which Eleonora Agostini uses photography, text and the moving image as forms of exploration of stage, backstage and performance. The figure of the mother and her job as a waitress serve as a vehicle to address concerns about the visible and the hidden in interpersonal relationships, as well as the roles we play in our daily lives.
Matteo De Mayda @ CRIPTA747
Via Catania 15/F, 10153, Turin
4 February – 28 February 2022
Cripta747 is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 to support research and contemporary art. It operates at the intersection of artistic practices and cultural debates, offering an annual programme of exhibitions, residencies, talks and events designed to encourage dialogue and exchange between visual arts and other expressive languages, and to offer the public an authentic and unfiltered vision. The projects carried out over the years have brought to Turin a new way of narrating the evolution of contemporary realities through the work of emerging artists and curators, but also of major historical figures. This approach makes Cripta747 a platform for meeting and exchange open to the outside world and to collaboration supporting and promoting artistic production.
Non c’è quiete dopo la tempesta (‘There is no calm after the storm’) is a long-term research project by Matteo De Mayda that weaves together archive and reportage photos, satellite and microscope images, individual testimonies and scientific theories, with the aim of telling the story of storm Vaia and the communities it affected. The project analyses what happened, weighing up the causes, responsibilities̀, consequences and future prospects, while raising greater public awareness of climate change.
The second webinar facilitated by Tania Bohórquez, Mexican visual artist and editor in the frame of Tbilisi Photo Festival X Futures programme! This series of webinars are organized in order to create new artistic and educational opportunities for our talents.
Tania Bohorquez’s webinar “On Representation: Traits Of Violence(s) In Mexico” will be held in English and provided on Friday, November 5th, at 7 PM, Tbilisi Time (CET 4 PM).
Living in societies that have established a culture of death and violation for their own citizens, minorities, and specifically, their women, demand a restructuring of the State in its exercise of power and a reformulation of the concepts of gender, violence, the welfare state, and human rights.
This conversation gives space to the voice of 11 women authors who represent, confront and denounce through their artistic practice diverse social phenomena derived from violence (collateral damage), the objective of this presentation is not to criminalize Mexico as a Necropolitical Nation-State, but to exemplify the gesture of resistance of women around the world.
The selected projects sublimely reinterpret the value of life in opposition to radical actions aimed at inflicting pain, suffering, and death (whether through murder, torture, kidnapping, or the violation of human rights), these visual narratives describe society's acts of resistance against the oppression of illegal drug corporations and sophisticatedly and forcefully denounce economic inequality and its ravages. They redefine the term of identity in the face of the phenomenon of human mobility, unravel the origin of discrimination inherited from the conquest, enunciate the complexity of affective relationships, domestic violence and collective trauma, more than a study of global violence in the Mexican context, it is to emphasize the gesture of these women linked to art who build a force of resistance and reparation, who try to generate new registers, new languages, and images to better understand our human experience.
Tania Bohórquez (Mexico) is a visual artist and editor, she uses photography, video, performance, and writing as her main media. Her work addresses issues of social containment and resilience in vulnerable groups. Her training as a political scientist and visual artist allows her to disseminate, discuss and interpret issues of violence, incest, family histories, drug use, and death, both aesthetically and discursively, exploring the ways in which we sustain ourselves as part of the social fabric.
Furthermore, her most recent projects are born from the intersection between art and other fields of action: as the denunciation and enunciation of taboo stories, from a personal narrative that opens the dialogue in the community; in recent years she has been linked with 150 people, mostly women from different countries, who have survived the phenomenon of sexual violence, she is interested in the multiplicity of stories and representations of trauma in the body and the resignification of pain.
She is currently concluding a project in three penitentiary centers in the south of Mexico with the participation of 82 people deprived of their freedom and is working on chapter III of the project: Incest.
She collaborates as a freelance in the art direction of photography books, she has worked with publishers RM, La Fabrica, Voices Off, Studio Vortex, AkaAka, Hydra among others. Since 2015 she is project manager of Magnum photographer Antoine d'Agata with whom she has collaborated and assisted in his artistic practice as well as in curatorial (exhibition) and editorial projects.
She has collaborated as a cultural manager in the area of education in institutions in southern Mexico (Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Centro de las Artes de San Agustín Etla), as a tutor has been part of the educational program CEACO (Clinics for the Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca), has been a tutor in government programs of Stimulus for the Creation and Artistic Development, coordinating artists specializing in Visual Arts. Since 2015 she has been part of the tutors of the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia.
The first webinar facilitated by Pauline Vermare, a photography curator and historian in the frame of Tbilisi Photo Festival X FUTURES program!
This series of webinars are organized in order to create new artistic and educational opportunities for the Futures Talents - the photographers that are part of Futures platform.
Pauline Vermare’s webinar on "Japanese Women Photographers: On Representation And Self-representation" will be held in English and provided on Thursday, October 28th, at 7PM, Tbilisi time (CET 5PM).
Inspired by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert's recently published Histoire Mondiale des femmes photographes, this presentation will investigate the extraordinary bodies of work produced by Japanese women photographers from the 19th century to today. Meant as a complement to a history of Japanese photography that is largely masculine, this talk will reveal the abundance and diversity of historical and contemporary creation by women Japanese photographers since the birth of the medium. Looking into issues of representation and self-representation, this project intends to restore a missing link in the history of Japan and the history of photography.
Pauline Vermare is a photography curator and historian. She is a former cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, a curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). From 2002 to 2009, she worked at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, in Paris. She is the author of numerous interviews and essays on photography. She sits on the boards of the Saul Leiter Foundation and the Catherine Leroy Fund.
Pauline Vermare grew up in France and in Japan. She studied the Japanese language and civilization in Paris. The book and exhibition project on Japanese women photographers she is currently working on — and will be presenting at the Festival — was born out of her contributions to the anthology Histoire mondiale des femmes photographes (Textual, 2020) and of the masterclass she was invited to give in turn for the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in February 2021 : “Miyako Ishiuchi, Tsuneko Sasamoto et Toyoko Tokiwa : Trois photographes japonaises dans l’Histoire”.
“When Icarus fell, it was spring” is the main event of the 12th edition of the Tbilisi Photo Festival. The exhibition combines the works of 77 American, European, and Georgian photographers into a nine-screen video installation. The event will be hosted by the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum from October 27th to November 27th.
Futures is one of the sponsors of the show. Among these 77 artists, there a selection of Futures artists: Younes Mohammad, Kamel Moussa, Eleni Onasoglou, Bebe Blanco Agterberg, Giulia Parlato, Romain Bagnard, Eniko Hosody, Celine Croze, Arguiñe Escandón (& Yann Gross) and Julie Glassberg.
When Icarus fell, it was spring
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
M. Kostava str. 14, Satamba hotel, D block., Tbilisi, Georgia
Monday-Friday 13.00-18.30
Free entrance.
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Discover the most recent work from five contemporary Irish photographers in this exhibition at The Library Project, presented as part of Futures Photography.
Each year, the Futures members nominate a number of artists to join the project. In 2021, PhotoIreland, as one of the founding members of the platform, proposed five Irish and Ireland-based artists: Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Clare Lyons, Jialin Long, and Mark Duffy. Now, you can meet them in an exhibition in Dublin, Ireland.
The exhibition is accessible from 7 October during opening hours at The Library Project and runs until the 24 October.
The Futures Conversations is an exclusive event in which we invite a group of professionals in the field of photography and our Futures artists for a series of portfolio review and coaching sessions. This October, these meetings take place in a private, online environment on 6, 7, 8 and 14 October, 2021.
Starting from the question "What would you like to talk about today?", curators, artists, editors, gallerists, publishers and writers meet with the Futures talents to connect and answer their questions on topics such as: advice for a project, research suggestions, business orientation, writing skills, grants application advice, etc.
The Futures Conversations is part of our annual programme and is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Launching the 12th edition of the Tbilisi Photo Festival, a group of Futures artists selected by the festival will be showcased on an online screening on 30 September, at 9.30PM (GMT+4).
The artists presented in the event are: Celine Croze (France), Eleni Onasoglou (Greece), Younes Mohammad (Iraq), Josephina Van de Water (Netherlands), Romain Bagnard (France), Kamel Moussa (Tunisia/Belgium), Enikő Hodosy (Hungary), Arguiñe Escandón & Yann Gross (Spain), Giulia Parlato (Italy, based in London), Bebe Blanco Agterberg (Netherlands), and Julie Glassberg (France).
The 12th edition of Tbilisi Photo Festival “Sea Change” is also a consequence of global changes of the past 2 years as it is a reality, that no longer resembles what it was before nor what it could have been.
Bounded in boundless space, confronted with the present, wrapped in raging waves, we join a stream that offers us new opportunities, new visions, and shows us both the past and the future in a whole new way.
The present that is here and where we are — from this point we enter the sea, which is full of change and of which we become part of.
More information about the festival here.
After the launching, the screening will remain available on YouTube: