Dystopia refers to an anti-utopia, where the promise of modernity to improve the quality of life of man happens to take the form, rather, of a Hypermodernity (Lipovetsky), full of contradictions. The present work seeks to project these issues into the near future. They are reflections about the transition to...
Michele Vittori: Telepath
At the beginning of the 60s the first civilian telecommunications space station in Italy was inaugurated in the Fucino plain, in Abruzzo, thanks to which the first satellite television transmissions of the most important international events were carried out, including space missions and in 1969 the live television broadcast of...
Kathleen Meier: Huis Clos
The series Huis Clos confronts us to a suggestive confinement. What happens in us when we are faced into a desperate situation ? What does we feel when we have no longer a connexion with the outside world? The disorientation and the contact loss with the outside put us into...
Jennifer Loeber: VERHEXEN
“Unruly women are always witches, no matter what century we’re in.” -Roxanne Gay VERHEXEN is a visual examination of The Witch as transgressive female archetype, in both modern and historical periods. 300 years after the Salem Witch Trials, our fixation with Witches hasn't wavered, from "The Wizard of Oz" to...
Deng Jiayun: The Better Life
Says Deng: The series on going in regard of the largest group of Chinese immigrants in Paris, France-- the wenzhounese. By chance, I got in touch with the wenzhounese community and started photographing their weddings since 2015. A decent wedding comes first; and behind the elaborate wedding etiquette, it is...
Miltiadis Igglezos: Ithaca
This ongoing project is about traveling, in a both literal and metaphorical sense. According to Homer, Ithaca was Ulysses' motherland, in which he returned ten years after the Trojan War, as a result of the obstacles that he had to encounter in the return journey. Konstantinos Kavafis, with an allegorical...
Ulrike Hannemann: The Palace – Then and Now
The Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was designed by Ngô Viết Thụ as a synthesis of classical and modern Vietnamese architecture and completed in 1966. The building then served as the home and office of the President of the Republic of South Vietnam until 1975, when it...
Agnieszka Gotowała: Crystal Abyss
Says Agnieszka: "Crystal Abyss” is long-term visual art project. I have realized it between the years 2017-2019. During this time I untertook the different stages of the project. I started it during Long Island Artist Residency in Averøya in Norway in 2017 and main implementation I realized in 2018 during...
Massimiliano Gatti: Le Nuvole (Clouds)
Le Nuvole (Clouds) is a photographic project based on a reflection about the relationship between historical memory and the present, about the actual distribution systems of video contents on Youtube platform. Says Massimiliano: I took images that I shot some years ago in Palmyra, the Syrian archaeological site that was...
Luciano Freaza: Esquizotopia
Says Luciano: Utopia, dystopia, atopia, heterotopia… I decided to coin my own fancy word inspired by Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and have fun with it: Esquizotopia. Esquizotopia, the title of the photographic series, are weird places where reality and fantasy merge and can be generated by paintings, photographs or motion...