Cameraitalia at IIC Stockholm

Cameraitalia is a new photography project conceived by the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm in collaboration with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

Overview

Curated by Ilaria Campioli, with exhibition design by Francesca Monti, the event unfolds in two exhibitions that offer an original reinterpretation of the spaces within the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.

Hypersea by Claudia Amatruda is the result of work undertaken during the Nuove Traiettorie 2024/2025 residency at the Institute. Inspired by water and the city's museums, the exhibition project inhabits the Institute's space, engaging in a dialogue with Gio Ponti's architecture and furniture. Amatruda describes the project as follows: "During the artistic residency at the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, water guided my research into the relationship between body, nature, and technology. The study of marine mammals allowed me to investigate the connections between human and animal, transforming my body – which, through photographs and videos, is no longer just mine – into a shared territory of research, becoming a mirror of a collective experience, a place of resistance and continuous redefinition. From this immersion also emerged a sculpture that gives form to a mutant being and a kinetic installation where I will test the resistance of perpetually moving water, both visible in the exhibition path guided by a photographic and textual archive."

Paths To The Future – The Giovane Fotografia Italiana Collection presents a selection of works from the projects that have won the Giovane Fotografia Italiana | Luigi Ghirri Prize since its establishment in 2018, curated by Daniele De Luigi and Ilaria Campioli. In the six projects presented in the exhibition by Marina Caneve, Iacopo Pasqui, Vaste Programme, Giulia Parlato, Giulia Mangione, and Benedetta Casagrande, the photographic medium is used to address some of the main themes of contemporaneity, as well as to reflect on the very nature of the medium. Characterized by an artistic and trans-medial approach, the projects tell of the increasingly complex relationship with nature and the environment, the provinces, the young people who inhabit them, and the collective fears of society, also through the use of archival materials. The works were acquired thanks to the Strategia Fotografia 2023 call, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, and are preserved in the homonymous collection housed in the Fototeca of the Biblioteca Panizzi in Reggio Emilia.