A new observatory and space for experimentation that it promotes is born photography as an investigative tool: And Photo/Territory which intends to feed a collective eye through photography, involving communities on essential issues related to the territory. Kicking off its activities is the series of meetings called BEYOND/Dialogue between photography, territory, community scheduled for 16 and 17 November 2024, in the Serra Madre of the artistic and cultural production center The Greenhouse at the Margherita Gardens in Bologna.
Among the guests: the photoeditor Giovanna Calvenziformer director of the Rencontres de la Photographie and responsible for the archive of Gabriele Basilico, photographers and artists Marina CaneveAlessandro Imbriaco, Allegra Martin e Paola de Pietrithe artistic director Elena Di Gioia and Caterina Molteni, curator of Things – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna.
The speakers will discuss the relationship between photography, community and territorieson the importance of archives, on the role of artist residencies, and on some recent photographic projects. To enrich the event, the bookshop managed in collaboration with Spazio Labò by Leporello: a Roman bookshop dedicated to photographic publishing, a connection point for graphics, architecture, illustration, non-fiction and literature.
With the November event, the Foto/Territorio journey begins, which in the coming years intends to develop into a broader project through the gaze of established and non-established photographers. The goal is ambitious. The architect explains Pierluigi Moltenipresident of Da.a.: «Photo/Territory wants make Bologna a point of referencecurrently missing, for research and photographic experimentation on the landscape and to create a replicable model of investigation, narration and experience of the territory”.
Photo/Territory was born fromsocial promotion association Da.a. composed of a multidisciplinary team engaged in the study, analysis and promotion of architecture, landscape and territory: Pierluigi Molteni, the photographer Luca Capuanothe art historian Immediate bluePiero Orlandi, Alessandro Zanini, with the collaboration of NOS Visual Arts Production.
«The project aims to nourish, through the focusing of the photographic lens, a collective gaze that is attentive and aware of the changes taking place in society and in the landscape. Why photography? Because, in an era in frenetic transformation, the shot requires critical thinking, it stops time and, by immortalising it, converts it into space for common reflection, rest and studywith an accessible language, also capable of nourishing precious archives for shared memory” explain the members of Da.a.
The association has previously organized I AM Bologna, architecture school for children born with the desire to activate, through play, childhood’s innate curiosity for the surrounding environment, pushing the little ones to ask themselves the right questions and imagine new answers. With the hope of being able to train a new generation of more aware and attentive citizens.
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