Dark Whispers

Morganna Magee

OPENING: June 27 2024, at Rifugio Digitale

June 27 – July 14, 2024 | Wed.-Sat. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

On cover: ©Morganna Magee, Dandenong Creek, Dark Whispers, 2022.

From June 27 to July 14, 2024 Rifugio Digitale presents the exhibition Dark Whispers by photographer Morganna Magee, which is the fourth stage of the exhibition cycle dedicated to contemporary photography Homecoming, conceived by Irene Alison and curated by Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci. The event is organized in collaboration with Forma Edizioni and the Infoto Firenze Association and thanks to the support of Gruppo AF and Banca Ifigest. The opening will be held on Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the presence of the artist and curators.
In conjunction with the exhibition, also on May 16, Kalpesh Lathigra will give a lecture – in dialogue with Irene Alison and curated by Paolo Cagnacci – at Bottega InFoto space on Leonardo Bruni Street from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

From the day of the opening, it will also be possible to consult the catalog of available works by Morganna Magee on the Forma Edizioni website.

Morganna Magee, And the last one is Flying fox, Dark Whispers, 2024.

Meet the artist

BIO

Morganna Magee is based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the  Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations,  the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice explores human relations to the more-than-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways.

In 2022 she published her debut monograph “Extraordinary Experiences” with Tall Poppy Press. The book was nominated for Australian Photobook of the Year, and was listed as one of the photobooks of 2020 by both Gabriela Cendoya and Robin Titchner. Enjoying the process of bookmaking so much, Morganna joined  Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne and has since published “Beware of People Who Dislike Cats” in 2023. In addition, “Phenomena” a collaboration with Italian publishing house Origini Edizioni was launched at Polycopies, 2023.
Her work has been awarded and exhibited both nationally and internationally recognised by institutions such as  The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week. She is regularly commissioned for editorial and large-scale community arts projects.Her images have appeared in The New York Times,  The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Age,  Art and Australia magazine amongst others

Morganna is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, at Swinburne University of Technology and is currently undertaking her Ph.D ‘Not Tame Enough‘ which questions how colonial photographic practices have misrepresented the Kangaroo.
Morganna Magee is based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the  Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations,  the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice explores human relations to the more-than-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways.
In 2022 she published her debut monograph “Extraordinary Experiences” with Tall Poppy Press. The book was nominated for Australian Photobook of the Year, and was listed as one of the photobooks of 2020 by both Gabriela Cendoya and Robin Titchner. Enjoying the process of bookmaking so much, Morganna joined  Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne and has since published “Beware of People Who Dislike Cats” in 2023. In addition, “Phenomena” a collaboration with Italian publishing house Origini Edizioni was launched at Polycopies, 2023.

Her work has been awarded and exhibited both nationally and internationally recognised by institutions such as  The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week. She is regularly commissioned for editorial and large-scale community arts projects.Her images have appeared in The New York Times,  The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Age,  Art and Australia magazine amongst others

Morganna is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, at Swinburne University of Technology and is currently undertaking her Ph.D ‘Not Tame Enough‘ which questions how colonial photographic practices have misrepresented the Kangaroo.

https://www.morgannamagee.com/

On cover: Robin Hinsch

Curatorial text by Irene Alison

“Nature is all that matters to me. The rest of the world is a fiction created by human beings for their own amusement, in which I have never felt at peace. I’m much happier day-dreaming under a tree than in any other place”. It is in nature, in the silence broken only by the myriad rustling whispers of the Australian bush in the dawn’s early light, that Morganna Magee finds her inspiration. Originally from Melbourne the Australian artist, for her first personal exhibition in Italy, brings to Rifugio Digiatale a show – entitled Dark Whispers, curated by Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci – including examples of material from her most recent projects as well as new material produced exclusively for the exhibition, in an itinerary that takes the viewer into the dark heart of the forest, in search of an ancestral, indomitable spirit.

This new event in the Homecoming cycle is a study of the landscape made by Morganna Magee, with a structure that is more metaphysical than geographical: what she describes for us is an inhabited land, on the borderline between the familiar and the surreal, populated by physical and evanescent presences, where Magee seems to search for the very roots of her own identity. Here and there, we catch a glimpse of a kangaroo; the outline of a horse penetrates the veil of morning mist. We can hear a flutter of wings, and a ghostly apparition seems to rise in the air.

Program

  • June 27, 12 noon: press conference with Morganna Magee and curators Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci
    free entrance

  • June 27 from 4,00 p.m. to 5,30 p.m. at La Bottega di Infoto at 4 Leonardo Bruni Street: lecture with Morganna Magee in dialogue with curator Irene Alison
    free entrance subject to availability

  • June 27, 6:30 p.m.: exhibition opening with Morganna Magee and curators Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci
    free entrance

  • June 27 – July 14, 2024, Wed.-Sat. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.: tours of the exhibition
    free entrance; reservation required for guided tours

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