Italiano
In the work “The Muse and the artists”, two well-established contemporary painters create various works, all connected by the hints and suggestions provided by a young and politically incorrect muse. The muse always has the last word on the destiny of the completed works, which is to say that the works will become of public domain only if what the artists have realized satisfy the muse. Otherwise, the artists will have to destroy the works in front of her eyes, and no memory will remain about them. Hence why, of 10 works realized by the group in the last nine years, 9 have been completely lost. The identity of the three protagonists will be revealed only when the project will end because, appropriating the quote by Oscar Wilde, “The Muse and the artists” believe that “to reveal art and hide the artists is the ultimate end in art”.
Tecnicha: fotografia
Marika Puicher
Marika Puicher is a freelance photographer specializing in social reportages. In 2009 she travels to Turkey where she tells the everyday life for Kurds in Istanbul. In summer 2010, she documents the search of the civilians killed in Bosnia during the war. Right after she gets involved in documenting the Italian economic crisis, the drama of the Italian families who fight for their houses, and the Ilva chemical disaster in the area of Taranto. In 2012 she wins the Portfolio Citerna Award with the project “For the children’s sake”, on the terrorist attacks in Italy. Afterward, she produced a series of works on the theme of the LGBT people’s right in Italy, Spain and Morocco. She wins the Pride Photo Award 2015 with the project “Ella”; and the second price with the series “Solo”. Her project “Ella” has been awarded also an honorable mention in the MIFA 2015.
Loredana Denicola
Loredana Denicola is a documentary photographer who lives in London. She uses photography as a tool for her personal evolution which began with the discovery of her ‘psychological structure’, and then comprehension and self – destruction, using her artistic work as a powerful means of self-analysis, creating dialogues between herself and others. “I am your mirror” photography project clearly represents this process in which, establishing an intimate connection with strangers found on Internet, Loredana employs Photography as a mirror to reveal some of repressing feelings of both parts involved (the stranger & photographer), freeing ourselves, temporarily, of automatic behaviors that from habituation we play to protect ourselves, acting roles in life, that are not part of us, only to be accepted from Society. The result? An attack to the Identity’s concept. With photography we can unlock doors but we can also disturb ourselves, as when we look in a mirror. Do we like what we see? Who are we?
Marsala
MARSALA is an artistic collective born in 2013 from the meeting between Maralla Rita and Teresa Sala. We develop multimedia projects of research about the relationship between body, gender, identity and space. In addition to produce audiovisual materials, “Marsala” promote a visual anthropology workshop aimed to explore the relationship between city and identities in the contemporary society. Rita is a visual anthropologist specialized in different forms of expression: video, collage, installation, photography and writing. Teresa works as a filmmaker and director, alternating commercial work in independent projects. Always interested in the performing arts, in 2015 she writes and directed her first play, “Sanificata”: a monologue about the obsession for cleaning body and spaces.
Alex Hai & Yamada Hanako
Alex Hai is known as the first female gondolier in Venice, Italy. With the collaboration of the artist Yamada Hanako, he made a photographic series to tell about himself
Rambelli e Bigi
’29 our circled world’ is a project realised by Silvia Bigi and Laura Rambelli and stressing the idea that the femininity and the today’s women’s space needs to be re-found searching for new direction.
The 70’s fights have of course helped to give all the social rights, material goods and space to women, but at the same time, they have created a big distance with their real nature. Women and men are not equals, they are different, but this is no one’s fault, this is not a matter of power. This diversity deeply lives in our body, our circled life, our biological and mental transformations. Our diversity is our strength, and – we think – the real nature and meaning of complementary love with men. It’s time to accept it. It’s time to develop a new way of communicating, really connected with us by stopping the search of this condition of “equality” that doesn’t exist. Women have their strengths, their fears, their pain. Men have their own. Man as a man, woman as a woman. We want to gently take action, without violence or strong speeches, this idea applied to today’s men and women.
Andrea Abbatangelo
Andrea Abbatangelo (°1981, Terni, Italy) makes sculptures and films. By applying a wide variety of contemporary strategies, Abbatangelo plays with the idea of the mortality of an artwork confronted with the power of a transitory appearance, which is, by being restricted in time, much more intense.
His sculptures are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents. By using an ever-growing archive of found documents to create autonomous artworks, he tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Alice Pedroletti
Alice Pedroletti has worked as a photographer collaborating with design and lifestyle magazines, record labels, fashion brand, press agencies and PR agencies for important sectors of international corporations. She’s taught at the IED of Milan photojournalism and editorial research and lately, she’s worked on advertising. Simultaneously, she has always been interested in contemporary art and has set up exhibitions and experimental projects as well as participating
Simultaneously, she has always been interested in contemporary art and has set up exhibitions and experimental projects as well as participating in artist’s residencies and international projects.
Since 2012 she’s mainly focused on her artistic path, one based on the study of men and their relationship with the surrounding environment, on the space as the extension of a thought or as the result of void and absence, on time and its perception in relation to the artistic production and ultimately on the etymology of words that characterise her works. Her works largely employ mediums such as photography, video, writing, archiving, audio.
Valentina Roselli
Born in Turin in 1986, Valentina Roselli focuses her work on the development of collective symbols within the contemporary context and deals with themes such as the exotic through the use of what she deems as visual anthropology.
Her academic curriculum spans from studies at the Accademia Albertina of Turin to ones at Kuvataideakatemia of Helsinki to the final graduation at the IUAV of Venice. She’s participated at Un’Idea Brillante (Frise Künstlerhaus – Hamburg 2014), Padiglione Crepaccio at yoox.com (Venezia 2013), Beyond Death (54’ Biennale of Venice 2011).
Stefano Scheda
I have always tried to catch the ‘short circuits’ of reality without altering their objective appearance. I try instead to let one feel at a second glance their waste, their boss-eye, their elsewhere. Since my first artistic research based on the relationship between body and architecture I have gradually moved to investigating social problematics such as: immigration, racism (Di-visione 2007/2010), fear and threat (Meteo 2004), national identity and the feminine condition (Le sfoglie di Garibaldi 2001) and lately, the problematic gender (Roll n’Roll 2009); installations or performances that often become photographic sequences and videos. The Fuoridentro series, through the recurrent motif of the mirror, involves its audience as being guilty of charge in its provocatory and irritating game. The game’s production is an interrogation on the threshold as changeable aperture-closure of the contemporary gaze. All my work is however created through dynamic ductility and leads to speculating on reality’s own perception and its possible translations; possibly a way of giving the spectator the difficult task of distinguishing illusion from reality. This spatial opposition is not just a physical condition, it is also a spiritual and cognitive one. The performative-relational aspect I have been experimenting in T(r)ATTO is the ideal following to the performance Looking for the body of the Artist, staged by me at the Galleria Martina Detterer of Frankfurt: the naked artist in a dark room as something invisible but tangible by the visitor/explorer.
AMAE
As a collaborative singularity, AMAE focuses on the tensions generated in marginalised bodies by heteronormative society. Amae’s research contaminates traditional languages of art communication (poetry, video, sound, photography, installation, performance) with mass media via photographic works and performances, which are often broadcast live on the web. Working on international platforms across the EU, AMAE focuses on intersubjectivity and transfer in performance art; inheritance and mimicry of behaviour; mimicry against emulation; identification and conflict; primary society and contemporary society; time and space of assimilation of empathetic behaviours; behaviours towards otherness; transient bodies; augmented reality.
Orlando MYXX e Giovanna Frene
Maschilità XX [Masculinity XX] is a poetic-photographic project that tells of “masculinity without the man,” the “masculine XX,” the one reinterpreted and lived by women (at least genetically) in its most diverse forms; that of androgynous women, of masculine lesbians (butch), of the theatricality of Drag Kings or of that embodied by F2M trans and the more playful and occasional transvestites.
The projects is developed via a series of photographic portraits in diptych form, each followed by a poetic composition and representing the same person in two versions – a “neutral” one, dressed in jeans and white top and a “masculine” other, wearing and posing in the way one feels they’re expressing themselves in all their “masculinity.” The poems, inspired by the interviews with the subjects, are brief narrations of daily lives and the distinctive interpretations each subject has on the idea of the masculine.