In Turin the new festival entirely dedicated to photography

With twenty temporary exhibitions, two days of talks, an educational platform, an independent publishing salon, meetings, screenings and readings, the EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival makes its triumphant entry onto the Turin scene. Under the direction of Menno Liauw and Salvatore Vitale, the first edition of the event dedicated to the art of photography will take place from 2 May to 2 June in all the main institutions of the city, with a theme dedicated to the relationship between image and landscape: New Landscapes – New Landscapes.The “EXPOSED TORINO FOTO FESTIVAL” 2024It starts with the exhibition A View from Above, set up at Platform 2 of the OGR Turin and curated by Domenico Quaranta, Salvatore Vitale and Samuele Piazza. Starting from a reflection by Hito Steyerl on vertical perspective, the exhibition brings together nine artists who adopt this point of observation of the landscape, to give life to a “new way of seeing”, also in relation to the dynamics of surveillance and control. Mónica de Miranda (winner of the first edition of the EXPOSED Grant for Contemporary Photography) is the protagonist at the Polo del ‘900 with As if the world 3 had no West: an investigation into the methods of creating new landscapes in the geographical context of Angola, which surpasses the Western dynamics with which we know and memorize the territory. At the Gallerie d’Italia, the Dutch designer and researcher Simone C. Niquille presents Beauty and The Beep, a short film focused on the coexistence between people and domestic robots, while at the National Cinema Museum films by Kalina Pulit, Michele Sibiloni and of the Wild Alchemy Lab collective. INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS IN TURIN There are two exhibition projects hosted by CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography: we find research on the relationship between man, nature and technology in the Anthropocene, the protagonist of the artist’s Heatwave exhibition South Korean Dongkyun Vak, and the collective with Arianna Arcara, Antonio Ottomanelli and Roselena Ramistella, focused on linguistic minorities in Italy. At GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea there is space for Expanded – The Landscapes of Art which, curated by Elena Volpato, observes the evolution of the theme of landscape in the history of Italian photography, from the nineteenth century to the present day. At the Castello di Rivoli, however, the retrospective dedicated to the work of Paolo Pellion di Persano, and the exhibition Expanded With, which investigates photography in relation to Land Art, Arte Povera and Body Art, take hold. couple” with Expanded Without, at Binario 1 of the OGR Turin, which instead focuses on works produced off-camera, i.e. in which the image is generated without resorting to the traditional photographic medium.[Immagine in apertura: Paolo Pellion di Persano, Lara Favaretto, I poveri sono matti, 2005. Castello di Rivoli. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2005. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. CRRI – Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli. Donazione eredi Paolo Pellion]