NOVEMBER 21st, 3 pm – 4 pm CET
Live on photovoguefestival.vogue.it
The panel focuses on social justice in contemporary photography projects, independent art practices and journalism. The speakers will discuss their work while addressing the relationship between mass media and silence and issues of generational awareness. Is social(media) indifference the new omertà? To what extent is it important to take a clear social stand in our present historical dimension?
Talk in English
BIOGRAPHIES
Angelo Boccato
Angelo Boccato is a freelance journalist whose work on human rights, migration, the far-right, Brexit and social issues has been published in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Independent, Equal Times, Open Migration, Internazionale, Q CODE Magazine, Cafebabel and other publications. He is also one of the organisers of the Festival of Italian Literature in London (FILL) and the co-author and co-host of the British affairs-focused podcast Post Brexit News Explosion with videomaker Alessandro Mariscalco.
Valeria Cherchi
Valeria Cherchi is a research-based artist whose work over the past years has been themed around the meaning of the ‘unspoken’, with a focus on using images and words to shed light on little known stories about lack of social justice. In her most recent project Some of You Killed Luisa, she examines small Sardinian communities as an example of a civil context that has opted to shape its social structure by choosing omerta (Code of Silence). The project has been published and exhibited across Europe and the photo-text book is published by The Eriskay Connection (2020). In 2018 Valeria was named in British Journal of Photography’s annual ‘Ones to Watch’ as one the best emerging talents from around the world. She was shortlisted for the Lucie Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship, selected for Plat(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur, nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award, the 6x6 Global Talent Program and the Joop Swart Masterclass. In 2020 she held her first solo show at Museo Nivola (Orani, Italy). Valeria is currently based between Milan and Sardinia where along with her practice, she works as a lecturer and freelance photographer.
Ilaria Conti
Ilaria Conti is an independent curator with a focus on research-based practices addressing social justice, decolonial processes, and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, and public engagement. Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she served as Exhibitions and Programs Director at CIMA New York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. She is the Vice-President of the African Art in Venice Forum. Curated projects include ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) (2020), Labor/Art/Auratic Conditions (2020), Prove di R(i)esistenza (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence, (2017); 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016).
