La XIII edition of PHOTOGRAPHY part from MACRO, its permanent headquarters, to radiate throughout the city. In line with previous years, the Festival confirms its vocation to create a "widespread" circuit dedicated to contemporary photography and, after involving foreign academies and private galleries, looks to cultural centers in the suburbs of Rome, which today represent artistic poles of new and vital urban centralities.
From the Festival's "huge collection of portraits", in which Italian and international authors have each been selected by a different photographer, curator, critic or museum director, it will be up to MOHAMED KEITA, FRANCESCO FRANCAVIGLIA, MARCO CIPRIANI and DANIELE MOLAJOI represent the role of the portrait and demonstrate how photography, in its various forms and expressions, is deeply linked to the past and present identity of the city.
The exhibitions: from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 13 November
ELSA MORANTE CENTER – Inauguration on 4 November at 11.00
Mohamed Keita, FEET, SHOES, LUGGAGE
A bench. A lot. A home for the homeless. Title J'live Termini. This is the first photo of Mohamed Keita which marks his arrival in Italy, in 2010, after leaving the Ivory Coast and crossing the desert via Libya. A long journey that lasted three years. In Rome, he sleeps on the sidewalk of via Marsala. When at seventeen he arrives at CivicoZero, a low-threshold day care center of Save the Children, he discovers photography with a disposable camera. Mohamed doesn't speak Italian and his shots become a way of knowing, communicating, showing a reality.
From Saturday 8 to Sunday 23 November
CENTRO GABRIELLA FERRI - Inauguration on 8 November at 17.30pm
Daniele Molajoli, JOHN'S FOLLY
In the eastern suburbs of Rome there is a container which is actually a clinic that offers free assistance to those who are usually excluded. Molajoli takes us into the John's folly, a name that Antonio Calabrò himself, a doctor at the Fatebenefratelli, chose for his garrison. John like that of the Vatican Council, John like the church of Don Bosco next to which the container is positioned. Through the portrait of the small container and the doctor's work we are led to imagine the portraits of all those who use them
From Tuesday 18 to Wednesday 26 November
ALDO FABRIZI CENTER – Inauguration on 18 November at 11.00
Francis Francaviglia, POETS FROM BLACK
Francesco Francaviglia suggests that photography and poetry are inexhaustible invitations to deduction and imagination. This on the portraits of Italian poets is a work that starts from the city of Palermo, where a dear friend of the photographer organizes poetry events. Since 2010 they have been working together on a photographic project that tells the story of Sicilian poets.
Mark Cipriani, OPEN CITY
The Rome of tourists in a game that oscillates between reality and fiction. This is what emerges from the work of Marco Cipriani: he, a Roman, creates a work of identity on his city, but he needs the eyes of tourists to enter the center of Rome and see it again with a strong, summery, full light. He doesn't want Romans, he wants foreigners, figures for his game "invaders". And so here are the open buses that go around like models on a plastic model, while always different men and women parade on the ground. It looks like a great game, but it's life, he continues, just as Marco's work will continue in other summers, as soon as the sun turns the game back on. With the collaboration of GQuadro
The International Festival of Rome, placed under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, is promoted and produced by the Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion of Rome Capital - Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage with Zètema Progetto Cultura and with the artistic direction by Marco Delogu. Until January 11, 2015
