Exhibition program Homecoming.
«Coming home. But to what home? What does “home” really mean nowadays? Is it a geographical location, a state of mind, a community of people? Or it it, perhaps, simply nostalgia for a place where, if truth be told, we have never really lived?».
Homecoming, in this second cycle of exhibitions devoted to contemporary photography organized by Rifugio Digitale, curated by Irene Alison with Paolo Cagnacci, is an opportunity to explore the concept of home in the complexity of the contemporary world, in the precarious balance between global interconnection and the need to find our own personal roots. Homecoming investigates the concept of identity in relation to places, whether it be a return to our origins, the rediscovery of our culture, or the response to a need to piece together the fragments of our history. Homecoming is also the opportunity to open our horizons to different viewpoints, exploring the histories and languages of other latitudes, and recognizing the importance of a pluralistic, multicultural outlook in contemporary photography.
The entire exhibition series is realized through the collaboration of the Rifugio Digitale Association with Forma Edizioni and the Infoto Firenze Association and supported by Gruppo AF and Banca Ifigest.
Lara Shipley
Desire Lines
Paolo Raeli
We Are Family
‘Raeli has been a compulsive photographer for over ten years (and he is only 29!). He applies an autobiographical dimension to his work, while operating on a universal plane, depicting the loves of a twenty-year-old but also an idea of family that challenges every stereotype: we love whoever we choose, those who resemble us, those who have the ability to understand our fragility amid the chaos of the world. We love those who embrace our changing selves, beyond the ties of blood, social convention or contract.’
Kalpesh Lathigra
Memoire Temporelle
04.04 – 12.05.2024
‘Lathigra experiences an existential condition poised between ‘now’ and ‘then,’ between identity and heritage, that belongs to millions of second-generation immigrants around the world. In the markets, amidst crowds and merchandise, among sacred cows and shirtless wrestlers, break dancers and pomegranate vendors, the photographer collects fragments of the idea of India that he carries within himself and, at the same time, explores with new eyes a country to which he is bound by a complex and unbreakable relationship.’
Robin Hinsch
Kowitsch – Lonely Are All The Bridges
16.05 – 02.06.2024
‘The frescoes that Hinsch creates have a hypnotic and vital beauty that goes beyond the contemplation of disaster, and an ability to restore to us, in the almost surreal silence that envelops them, all the echo of the senselessness of war and all the hope for the future that takes root even when ‘home’ is but a pile of dust.’
Morganna Magee
Dark Whispers
27.06 – 14.07.2024
‘The landscapes conceived by Morganna Magee have 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.’
Isa Rus
Birthmark
18.07 – 08.09.2024
‘The mother’s body, the field of an eternal silent battle, transformed by pregnancy, inhabited by the newborn, pervaded by expectations and judgments, is expressed in Rus’s photographs in a dimension of total freedom and connection with nature.’
Claudine Doury
Solstice
25.09 – 13.10.2024
