Senigallia City of Photography continues its commitment to promoting and showcasing great international photography, dedicating a new exhibition to one of the most important and significant Italian collections.
Through the books on display, it will be possible to explore the evolution of photographic language, from the pioneering images of Lisetta Carmi to the experimental works of Marina Ballo Charmet and Alessandra Spranzi, up to the more recent linguistic exercises of Claudia Petraroli, Sara Rossi, and other significant international photographers. Since the 1960s, photography has been able to reflect on major socio-political changes, and the works in the collection document and analyze them from a special, all-female observatory: the body and its transformations, everyday experience and family life, the relationship between private and collective memory, the dialogue between photography and other languages. The heart of the exhibition is based precisely on this last point, starting with the books and "exploding" them in the exhibition space.
The exhibition allows for a thorough analysis of the evolution of publishing: from the most experimental artist books to institutional photography catalogs to today's agile self-productions. The transversality of visual language and the increasingly close relationship between photography and contemporary art are leading artists to use the photographic medium in conjunction with other expressive pursuits; therefore, the exhibition highlights this important evolution in female creativity. The exhibition also features a small selection of artist videos, allowing viewers to appreciate how the style and thinking of each of the exhibited artists can manifest itself in multiple languages simultaneously: artist books, photographic prints, and video research. These are complemented by a selection of videos in which books are manually leafed through. The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual publication, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, conceived as a collaborative work, in which the images of the selected authors meet for the first time and engage in dialogue with one another, with the book as their common element.
The photographers
Eleonora Agostini, Meris Angioletti, Daniela Ardiri, Marina Ballo Charmet, Mariella Bettineschi, Fatma Bučak, Giulia Caira, Marcella Campagnano, Marcella Campagnano, Marcella Campagnano, Silvia Camporesi, Lisetta Carmi, Monica Carocci, Francesca Catastini, Francesca Catellani, Daniela Comani, Marilisa Cosello, Erminia De Luca, Martina Della Valle, Bruna Esposito, Eva Frapiccini, Elena Franco, Bruna Ginammi, Valentina Loffredo, Giulia Marchi, Allegra Martin, Malena Mazza, Sofia Masini, Tomaso Binga, Ottonella Mocellin, Brigitte Niedermair, Claudia Petraroli, Luisa Rabbia, Giada Ripa, Silvia Rosi, Sara Rossi, Marinella Senatore, Alessandra Spranzi, Sofia Uslenghi, Alba Zari.
The books
Elisa Abela, Valentina Abenavoli, Paola Agosti, Martina Bacigalupo, Isabella Balena, Letizia Battaglia, Betty Bee, Elisabetta Benassi, Alessia Bernardini, Husni Bey, Silvia Bigi, Giovanna Borgese, Anna Valeria Borsari, Giovanna Brogna Sonnino, Alessandra Calò, Francesca Cao, Carla Cerati, Valeria Cherchi, Margherita Chiarva, Augusta Conchiglia, Francesca Cristin, Paola De Pietri, Paola Di Bello, Simona Ghizzoni, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Luisa Lambri, Sonia Lenzi, Rachele Maistrello, Lucia Marcucci, Paola Mattioli, Libera Mazzoleni, Maddalena Migliore, Antonella Monzoni, Antonia Mulas, Fregni Nagler, Cristina Nunez, Cristina Omenetto, Stephanie Oursler, Michela Palermo, Lina Pallotta, Susanna Pozzoli, Jessica Raimondi, Moira Ricci, Sharon Ritossa, Marialba Russo, Lori Sammartino, Adriana Sartogo, Bianca Sforni, Shobha, Nerina Toci, Francesca Todde, Nicoletta Deva Tortone, Ilaria Turba, Giorgia Valli, Martina Zanin.
The exhibition was promoted by the Marche Region as part of the Senigallia City of Photography project and organized by the Municipality of Senigallia in collaboration with the Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation and the Donata Pizzi Collection Association.
