Nonostante Ballarò

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BIOGRAFIE

Marcella Manni
Marcella Manni ha fondato e dirige Metronom, occupandosi di progetti di ricerca sulla cultura visuale contemporanea, attraverso la produzione di mostre, incontri, rassegne dedicate in modo particolare alle esperienze artistiche di più recente generazione. Con Metronom ha avviato nel 2015 il progetto LIVEstudio, residenza d’artista e nel 2013 Generazione critica, un convegno annuale dedicato alla critica d’arte e una rivista online e, nel 2018 il progetto Digital Video Wall, uno spazio/vetrina dedicato all'arte digitale. Ha curato mostre di, tra gli altri, Taisuke Koyama, Christto&Andrew, Sanna Kannisto, Martina della Valle e Kenta Cobayashi. È docente presso la scuola di alta formazione di FMAV, Modena.

Francesco Bellina
Francesco Bellina (Trapani, 1989), ha studiato giurisprudenza all’Università di Palermo per dedicarsi poi alla fotografia. Ha all’attivo collaborazioni con, tra gli altri, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Paris Match, Internazionale. Focus del suo lavoro l’indagine politica e sociale nel mondo contemporaneo, con particolare attenzione al tema delle migrazioni. Dal 2017 al 2018 ha collaborato con Save The Children e l’associazione Zen con progetti di fotografia nelle scuole del quartiere Zen a Palermo. Attualmente lavora al progetto ‘Oriri’, indagando le relazioni tra il traffico sessuale e i rituali voodoo in Benin, Niger Ghana, Nigeria e Sicilia.La sua seria Tanakra è stata esposta all’Università di Neuchâtel, Svizzera, nel 2019 e a Bari nel 2020 nell’ambito della selezione del World Press Photo a Palazzo Margherita, Bari.

Francesca Marani
Dal 2015 fa parte del dipartimento fotografico di Vogue Italia. È contributor di Vogue.it, photo editor della piattaforma PhotoVogue e co-curatrice del Photo Vogue Festival. Francesca inoltre si occupa della produzione delle mostre fotografiche di Vogue Italia e della creazione di contenuti per l’account Instagram del magazine.

Nel 2018 ha curato una serie di talk sulla fotografia contemporanea per Affordable Art Fair (Milano), ha co-curato la mostra "Italian Panorama" presso Armani/Silos e ha fatto parte della giuria di Ooshot Award (Parigi). Negli ultimi anni è stata lettrice portfolio per Blink Portfolio Review (New York), ha fatto parte della giuria di Photolucida’s Critical Mass.

Nel 2019 ha preso parte a “Scouting for India”(Mumbai), il progetto di Vogue Talents in collaborazione con FAD International Academy. Nel 2020 è stata membro della giuria di Fresh Eyes (GUP magazine), PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant e Photoville FENCE.

Francesca collabora regolarmente con diversi festival di fotografia e scuole in veste di portfolio reviewer e lecturer.

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NOVEMBER 22nd, 4 pm – 5 pm CET

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Nonostante Ballarò is the story of the fortuitous encounter between Francesco Bellina and Antonio Marras through social-networks during the lockdown, but it is also the chronicle of two days in September in which the Sardinian designer and artist met the Sicilian photographer—in the place the latter defines home—and lived with him, in a set that is as itinerant as it is alive, open and real.
Nonostante Ballarò (Despite Ballarò) took place in the historic and characteristic neighborhood of the same name in Palermo: it is a project that combines social research and art performance, messes up fashion photography and photojournalism’s standards and approaches with care, respect, irony and no rethoric to a community and its habits and conventions.

Talk in Italian

BIOGRAPHIES

Marcella Manni
Marcella Manni is the founder and director of Metronom, where she undertakes research projects on contemporary visual culture by producing and hosting exhibitions, talks and festivals with a special focus on the artistic production of the younger generation. With Metronom, in 2015 she launched an artist residency project called LIVEstudio while in 2013 she had spearheaded Generazione critica, an annual event focused on art critique and accompanied by an online publication. In 2018, Manni started Digital Video Wall, a space/platform revolving around digital art. She has been the curator of numerous exhibitions on Taisuke Koyama, Christto & Andrew, Sanna Kannisto, Martina della Valle e Kenta Cobayashi, among others. She is a professor at FMAV - a school specialized in Advanced Studies in Contemporary Imagery in Modena, Italy.

Francesco Bellina
Francesco Bellina (Trapani, 1989) obtained a Law Degree from the University of Palermo but then chose to dedicate himself fully to photography. His work has been featured in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Paris Match and the Italian Internazionale, among others. His practice is mostly concerned with contemporary political and social issues with a special focus on the topic of immigration. Between 2017 and 2018, Bellina worked with Save The Children and Zen Insieme association, teaching photography classes in the Zen neighbourhood schools in Palermo. Currently, he’s working on the long-term project Oriri, which investigates the intersection between sex trafficking and voodoo rituals in Benin, Niger, Ghana, Nigeria and Sicily. His series Tanakra was exhibited at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and at Palazzo Margherita in Bari, Italy, as part of the 2020 World Press Photo selection.

Francesca Marani
Since 2015 she has been part of Vogue Italia’s photography department. She is a contributor to Vogue.it, photo editor for the PhotoVogue platform and co-curator of the Photo Vogue Festival. Francesca also manages the production of Vogue Italia’s photographic exhibitions and creates digital contents for Vogue Italia’s Instagram account.

In 2018 she curated a talk series about contemporary photography at the Affordable Art Fair (Milan), she co-curated the exhibition “Italian Panorama” at the Armani/Silos and was a juror of the Ooshot Award (Paris). Over the past few years Francesca has been a portfolio lecturer for the Blink Portfolio Review (New York) and a juror of the Photolucida’s Critical Mass.

In 2019 Francesca took part in “Scouting for India”(Mumbai), the Vogue Talents’ project in collaboration with FAD International Academy. In 2020 she was a member of the jury of Fresh Eyes (GUP magazine), PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant and Photoville FENCE.

Francesca regularly collaborates with several photography festivals and schools as portfolio reviewer and lecturer.