The exhibition is the final result of a two-year project that involved the students of the photography course at ISIA in Urbino dedicated to Italian colonialism and its traces in the contemporary world.
A research project that draws inspiration from the materials present in various Italian archives (MUCIV, ICCD, National Library among others) and the study of monuments and communities in the city of Rome.
“The authors thus attempted to disavow hegemonic Western thought by opposing it to a more desirable accidental photographic thought that led to new conditions of possibility for images”, an attempt to overturn the stereotypes that the dominant historical and social culture continue to perpetrate.
In addition to the exhibition, the projects also took the form of a book, published by Corraini Edizioni and two talks will be held on July 12th from 6pm at Villa Romana:
Museo delle opacità by Matteo Lucchetti
Making Visible the Invisible. Body, Archive and Resistance by Angelica Pesarini
A project by ISIA Urbino Director Giuseppe Biagetti
Projects: Sofia Cambiaggio Michela Del Longo Alida Lardini Sofia Noce Arianna Mattietti Orani Gennaro Mungiguerra Alessia Pagotto Chiara Rebolino Khrystyna Shostak Lorenzo Urgesi Marta Vultaggio
Coordinator MA Photography Paola Binante
Graphic design: ISIA Urbino supervised by Silvana Amato with Roberta Antinolfi, Lukas Osele and Agnese Pozzobon
Production Coordination: Giulia Peraro
In collaboration with: Villa Romana
Director Elena Agudio Curator Mistura Allison ExhibitionProduction Giulia Del Piero
The Villa Romana e.V. maintains the Villa Romana and the Villa Romana Prize. The main sponsor is the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Other sponsors are the Deutsche Bank Foundation, the BAO Foundation as well as - project related - numerous private individuals, companies and foundations from all over the world.
