VISIO. EUROPEAN IDENTITIES New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video

EXHIBITION
In occasion of Lo schermo dell'arte 2018

curated by Leonardo Bigazzi
promoted and organised by Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, FST- Mediateca Regionale Toscana

Opening: Tuesday, November 13 at 6:00 pm

This year VISIO presents a new exhibition project, European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video in the space of Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, a monumental complex that was a men’s prison until 1984. Recently restored by the City Council in order to host exhibition and research projects, the building maintains the structure of the 19th Century prison, including maximum security and isolation cells. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video brings together video, films and video installations that represent the variety of media and formats adopted by contemporary video practice, while reflecting on the interaction of video formats and the exhibition context.
The exhibition shows 12 video works by participants in the VISIO programme, to give insight into the variety of different cultures and nationalities of artists under 35 working in Europe today. Their works are the expression of a new European artistic identity, strongly fostered and shaped by an unprecedented transnational mobility, yet often revealing a fragile and precarious dimension. Cities like Amsterdam and Berlin developed well- established communities of artists working with moving images thanks to funds for production and opportunities for study and residence. An open and international system that growing populist and sovranist movements in Europe might affect. The exhibition also intends to critically reflect on the limits of a European context, still too dependent on the financial capacities and the nationalities of the artists. With this exhibition, Lo schermo dell’arte continues the strong commitment which has characterized its eleven years of activity, aimed at the promotion and production of works by a new generation of visual artists working with moving images in Europe.
This exhibition is in continuity to the previous ones held in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi (2015), Cinema La Compagnia (2016), Palazzo Medici Riccardi (2017), and in France at Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2018).
The exhibition is produced and organised by Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, FST- Mediateca Regionale Toscana.

Artists: Tekla Aslanishvili, Vincent Ceraudo, Alice dos Reis, Ryan Ferko, Riccardo Giacconi, Vanessa Gravenor, Margaret Haines, Alyona Larionova, Lukas Marxt, Martina Melilli,Michał Soja e Róża Duda, Katja Verheul.

VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize IV Edition is assigned by Seven Gravity Collection to Alice dos Reis for the work Mood Keep (2018):
Our choice is a video that was able to explore the potential of images with simple and effective solutions. A work that has condensed our relationship with images and with time as philosophical categories. What struck us about this project was its ability to reflect speculatively on these issues and his invitation to reflect on the future through new associations in which the only way forward is to accept the bizarre as a possibility.