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PHOTOBOOK WEEK AARHUS, DENMARK
I was thrilled to be selected as a finalist and to be awarded 2nd place for the 2023 PWA AI contest held during Photobook Week Aarhus 2-5 November.
The 2023 theme is 'Our World Is Beautiful'.
Since 2014, Galleri Image and the Aarhus School of Architecture have collaborated on organising Photobook Week Aarhus (PWA), a yearly festival focused on the rapidly growing international interest in photobooks in recent years.
PWA reflects a continuous study of the evolution and role of the medium and presents the photobook to the general public and to individuals who work professionally with photobooks and photography, be it from an artistic, communication-related or academic standpoint.
SPECULATIVE HORIZONS, KUWAIT
Great to have been included in this exciting project.
Speculative Horizons is an exciting new collaboration between Kuwait and Australia that will feature contemporary Australian and Kuwaiti photography and develop an expanding dialogue between the regions. The collaboration was launched with an exhibition and symposium focusing on still and moving imagery in Kuwait City in February 2023. The inaugural event will explore ideas associated with ‘Land’ and ‘People’ and the interconnectedness between space/place and inhabitation/culture.
Speculative Horizons has been developed by Dr Kristian Häggblom (Australia) and Dr Saad Alsharrah (Kuwait), and is supported by The Australian Embassy in Kuwait and will be staged at the Contemporary Art Platform.
Venue CAP, Kuwait
Launch 8th of February 2023
Symposium 11th of February 2023
Exhibition 8th – 22nd of February 2023
IN PARALLEL, MUSEO ITALIANO, MELBOURNE
In Parallel is a group exhibition with Anna Caione, Liliana Barbieri, Wilma Tabacco and Sarina Lirosi at CO.AS.IT., Faraday Street, Carlton, from 5 August-28 September 2022
This show features new site-specific works installed in four distinct glass vitrines further responding to the ideas of their selected Italian designers – Bruno Munari, Gaetano Pesce, Alessandro Mendini and Giò Pomodoro – and to their own works first exhibited in Parallel Visions at CO.AS.IT. in 2020-2021.
In Parallel further extends their creative practice in light of their Italian cultural heritage.
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES 2022
My previous work for Parallel Visions was inspired by Alessandro Mendini’s curation of the 2010 Milan Triennale where he included more than 800 objects reflecting on what it means to be Italian.
My vitrine installation for In Parallel features a collection of Polaroid photographs of my immediate and extended family and a number of close friends – most are Italian. The question of ‘what it means to be Italian’, may be further considered in this Cabinet of Curiosities where our gaze is met by a multitude of peering faces both young and old.
