From Brescia, where it will take place from 4 to 11 May, it will descend to Rome and then go back up to Genoa and, subsequently, fly overseas to Iquique, in Chile. It will be a traveling exhibition around which talks, workshops and documentary screenings will also take place. The main focus will be human rights. There «Itinerant Social Biennial» (Bis) is a traveling project in its first edition curated by the Pachamama association (translated it means «Mother Earth»), which promotes dialogue and discussion on social issues, creating opportunities for meeting, exchange and growth.
Bringing the work of thirteen reportage photography authors to two continents, from 4 May to 28 August the Bis will stop in four cities: Brescia, Rome, Genoa and Iquique (Chile). Photographic exhibitions, talks, workshops and screenings will be the activities hosted in private and public museum spaces including: MO.CA- Center for new Cultures, Photographic Workshops, Palazzo Ducale and the Regional Museum of Iquique.
In Brescia
The inauguration in Brescia will take place on May 4th at the Mo.Ca in via Moretto at 3pm. From that day until the 11th there are various events scheduled, which will also stop in other corners of the city (program in the attached pdf). Among the guests also the photographer Gabriele Chiesa, Patrizia Riviera and Isabella Balena. In our city there was an enthusiastic reception of the project by the Loggia, «which is imbued with a contagious enthusiasm – comments the councilor for Social Sustainability Anna Frattini – and makes us proud for the fact that it starts right from Brescia» .
A window on the world
«The Bis is an active observatory – observes the photographer and videomaker Paola Jesus, one of the main promoters of this initiative -: through reportage photography we talk about the problems and contradictions of our modernity, with its burden of humanitarian wars, environmental crises, migrations and racism”.
The works of Bis «tell a story stories of human and environmental rights – adds Marco Cola -, in a destiny that intertwines the future of man and that of the land he inhabits. The goal is to create a window onto the world, so as not to leave us indifferent and to see, understand and act consciously.” Within each city, exhibitions, screenings and talks take place in the urban centers and outskirts, up to the small neighboring towns. With itinerancy, Bis approaches different social, economic and cultural realities.
