9.06 – 30.06.2018
The Universe Makers
Bianca Salvo
curated by Federica Landi
“In ancient days , men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.”
Richard Nixon
The project The Universe Makers (2016-2018) is the result of a one-year research on space imagery and is presented as an enquire on representative patterns and figurative models upon which our pop culture psyche bases and which still nowadays profoundly influence our attitudes toward the scientific and the outer space. The series explores the character photography, technology, science fiction and other media have played in producing evidences that still address our collective imagery towards believes, fake conceptions and constructed scenarios.
The future of civilization is certainly a matter of concern for humanity: from the appearance on TV of the First Man on the Moon in 1969, to the recent mission of Mars ONE promising to inaugurate a permanent human settlement on Mars, the possibility of life beyond Earth has established itself concretely in our minds.
The Universe Makers points to explore abstractions of the collective unconscious related to our perception of the outward space, questioning the relationship between the photographic document and the ultimate notion of belief.
Bianca Salvo (*1986) is an italian visual artist currently living and working between Italy and South America. She was awarded with an MA in Photography in 2012 from London College of Communication and previous to that, in 2010 she gained a BA in Visual Art & Photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. Her work has been shown in Italy and abroad in several collective exhibitions: From North to South:The Archive as a Connective Map (SiFestOff16, Rimini, 2016), Shifting Focus (Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2016), Il ritratto (Galleria San Fedele, Milan), 97 Collettiva Giovani Artisti (Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, 2013), Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee (Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, 2013), The End (Miami Public Library, Miami Art Basel, Miami 2012).
She is the recipient of the scholarship Chromaluxe for Lucie Foundation 2018 and her book “Time and Again” was recently shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2018 and Unseen Dummy Award 2017. Her projects have been published in several on-line magazine such as: GUP Magazine (2018), YET Magazine (2017), Archive Collective Magazine (2017). From 2013 to 2017 she has been lecturer in Creative Research in Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.
Opening
9.06.2018
h – 19.00
Fonderia 20.9
Mer-Sab 10-13, 16-19
Via XX Settembre 67, Verona
info@fonderia209.com