Russian Palimpsest is a photographic exploration of the contemporary post-Soviet inhabited landscape in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine (approximately 70 urban and suburban locations overall). I am shifting the optics from the Soviet sublime and Western exoticism to the everyday of our cities transitioning from a Communist Utopia to...
Tommaso Rada: The Danube Isn’t Blue
The Danube is not blue anymore, it carries the history and the consequences of the human actions: communist regimes, violent revolutions and, particularly, industrial and agricultural exploitations. The Danube, an astonishing river that shapes the imaginary of the region, is the liquid metaphor of the changes taking place within the...
Fulvio Bugani: Waria
In Indonesia, transgender are known as Waria, a term which is a combination of two Indonesian words: “wanita,” which means woman, and “pria,” which means man. In a country with a conservative culture and where the majority of the population is muslim (approximately 202.9 million of believers - 87.2% of...
Patrick Tourneboeuf: Nowhere
Contrary to expectations and in spite of the varied architectural styles, the impression given by this habitat is that of uniformity and desolation. Beyond the striking visual effects of these pictures, this photographic work offers more than a sociological or ethnographic report. It encompasses a political dimension by revealing the...
Karin Crona: Neither Nor
Old towns, shopping malls, industrial areas and wastelands, highways, big parking lots, suburbs divided in residential areas and compounds, green areas, tourist attractions, more or less visible slums - the major European cities and their suburbs get more and more alike. These images gives away clues to where they were...
Jadwiga Bronte: Invisible People of Belarus
Belarus, located in the far-flung reaches of Eastern Europe is the last dictatorship on the continent and for some is still considered to be part of Russia. This is a place where the president, Alexander Lukashenko is seen as an unchallenged, fearsome and almost ‘God-like’ figure. Belarusians still fear the...
Elena Anosova: Section
The project about women's prisons is a part of a trilogy that is centered around lives of women in closed institutions. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a reflection of my teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school. I would like to take a closer...
Alyssa Salomon: Animal Land
Animal Land is a collaborative project between Alyssa C. Salomon, visual artist, and Anne Wright, Director of Environmental Outreach at the Rice Rivers Center, Virginia Commonwealth University’s biological field station. Animal Land unites contemporary art strategies with scientific research, to shine light on wildlife dwelling amongst tamed and untamed habitats...
Haoran Fan: Covered / Uncovered
Covered/Uncovered is a series of embroidered photographs that explores perception and interaction with the natural environment. The foundation prints reference classical landscape photography, which is uncovered. The artist combines pieces of transparency with needle & thread to emphasize the covered. The combination of a two dimensional photograph with three dimensional...
Giovanni Presutti: Hello Dolly!
The overbuilding of the territory is consuming an increasing share of agricultural area. Our suburbs are now clones of the city where shopping malls, multiplexes, industrial buildings, parking lots and social housing follow each other eroding the living space from which we derive our sustenance. In the near future Dolly,...