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“Swim Till I Sank” is part of the program of the side events taking place during the PhotoVogue Festival.
Gabriele Stabile has reworked his photographic archive, after years spent as a photojournalist in Italy, the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. He finally chose to exhibit his archive at Micamera, since he wanted to give more space and a less ephemeral value, to the stories behind his photographs: he didn t want to fit in a specific narrative that it was not his, who in first person lived those impactful moments.
The photographer gives life back to images consumed by the news system, wandering between rationality and the subconscious and creating new horizons by using different materials (acrylics, canvas, wood). By reworking the photographs, Stabile trajects them into a dreamlike dimension in which memories and facts can expand and assume blurred shapes. The Aristotelian units of photojournalism have definitively disappeared.
The artist s act goes through two moments: the immediate recording of the event and the reworking of the material when, after years, it has lost its "relevance" and when the exact memory of where the photo was taken has fade away. After all, the practice of imagination is the fundamental exercise to breathe life and truth back into the world.
The book, published by RVM-Hub in 2023, was finalist at LUMA Dummy Book Awar and was also nominated among the finalist for the award of best book of the year at PHotoESPAÑA. It won the Premio Bastianelli.
In the weekend after the opening, Gabriele Stabile will held the workshop FARE ARTE. Binomi fantastici e dove trovarli.
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“Swim Till I Sank"
Artist: Gabriele Stabile
October 19 - November 25 2023
Wednesday - Saturday 10 - 13 and 16 - 19
Micamera
Medardo Rosso, 19
20159, Milano
Here the complete list of the other side events taking place in the same days of the Festival.
- Cfp Bauer. “Is this Water”. Curated by the professors and the students of the school.
- Condominio. “Twin Spark”. Curated by Giulia Restifo and Alessandro Calabrese . Artists: Anca Adina Bettega, Matteo Capriotti, Caterina Dondi, and Francesca Rossi.
- Armani/Silos. "Guy Bourdin: Storyteller". Curated by Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate.
- Leica Galerie. “James’ House” and “Hunting Heart”. Artists: Jacob and Sara Aue Sobol. Curated by Maurizio Beucci and Claudio Composti.
- Istituto italiano di Fotografia. “Ex Novo. Digestioni a catena”. Artists: Giuseppe Laera and Luigi Notarnicola
- Perimetro. “MATCH!”. An experimental workshop curated by Perimetro Learn.
- Podbielski Contemporary. “Mirabilia”. Artist: Silvia Camporesi.
- 29 Arts in Progress. “Michel Haddi: Beyond Fashion”.
- Still Fotografia. "Giorgio Galimberti: alchimia dell’ombra". Curated by Alessandro Curti.
- Palazzo Reale. “JIMMY NELSON. Humanity”. Curated by Nicolas Ballario and Federica Crivellaro.
- Monica De Cardenas Gallery. “Stephan Balkenhol” .
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Francesca Marani (Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia), Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Editor, Writer and Curator), Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Content Operations Strategy Manager, Condé Nast) and Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue)
