Karim El Maktafi, Camilla Ferrari, Sara Scanderebech and Riccardo Svelto are the protagonists of the artist residences project promoted by EARTH Foundation in collaboration with the municipality of Peccioli and supported by the Fondazione Peccioliper e Belvedere Spa from summer 2023.
These realities are united by the values of sustainability, responsibility and sharing and have chosen to cooperate with the objective of returning a slice of the virtuous system of Italian villages.
Peccioli has long been engaged in the valorization of the territory through art and contemporary languages, working in particular on some sensitive areas of the urban fabric. The proposal of EARTH for Peccioli is developed in the wake of this project, between local identity and international creativity, focusing especially on the area of waste disposal of Legoli.
The entire project is carried out in collaboration with CAMERA – Italian Centre for Photography of Turin, as part of the activities to promote and enhance young emerging authors.
Giangavino Pazzola, associate curator at CAMERA and of the entire Peccioli program: the look of FUTURES, in collaboration with Giulia Adami, curatorial project manager of EARTH Foundation, worked together with the four photographers, By selecting a corpus of images that reflected the vision and personal experience of research conceived by each of them. Four different sensitivities that correspond to as many different interpretations of the real, able to offer a first-level overview on the most current research and solutions of contemporary photography. The result is a photographic exhibition spread in various places, thought as a path of territorial valorization along the village and beyond its walls: the exhibition route develops between institutional spaces, such as the Palazzo Senza Tempo, and outdoor places among Peccioli, Legoli e Belvedere in an itinerary that embraces the territory showing to the public the variety of poetics and practices of photography and contemporary image in Italy.
The residencies cycle promoted by EARTH Foundation, and supported by the Fondazione Peccioliper, aims to stimulate a deeper knowledge of the territory and its citizenship, Promoting opportunities for meeting to develop a true relationship between the artist and the fabric of the city, from which inspiration can be drawn for the conception of new works.