2nd Prize ex aecquo
Alice Lupo Cecchet
The film "Balaena" explores the transience of the human and animal experience, an aspect that unites human and "non-human" beings. Through the visual analysis of a beached whale, the film invites the viewer to reflect on the finiteness of life, the decomposition of the body and the ephemerality of our existence. The whale in the film provides a point of view to re-evaluate our fears related to death and decay, offering a way to consider the interdependence of organisms and the value of empathy.
Work in competition:
Balaena - video
2nd Prize ex aecquo
Marijke De Pous
The work selected for the ArteAlta competition is part of the series "Choreographies of care and resistance". This particular piece addresses the fear of losing control in relation to internal and external unrest. We are in a battle that we cannot win. The more we try to tame our fears, the more our world shrinks and the less we feel connected to others. What would happen if we allowed ourselves to let go? Can we dance with our fears and turn them into something new?
Work in competition:
Choreographies of care and resistance - Photography
3rd Prize
Brigitte Amarger
When we are confronted with fear, guided by survival instinct and hope, it forces us to stand up and pushes us forward, allowing us to grow and explore new horizons.
Work in competition
Homo exodus - Installation
Martha Amorocho
In contexts permeated by insecurity, fear pushes us to develop strategies, whether they are escape or confrontation. You don't get used to fear, but you face it at every manifestation, thus changing your nature and temporarily transforming yourself with your wolf mask. This image represents a self-portrait masked and wrapped in my skins-veils-fears from which I freed myself.
Work in competition
Mudando pieles - Photography
Savina Capecci
A tumultuous movement of bodies involved in the escape or search for a land that the title The Pro-missed land, with the ambiguity of the words, keeps poised between the dimensions of hope and abandonment; That disorientation forces us to share it, observing from below the orange spots that outline the figures.
Life jackets?
Are we on a drifting boat?
Work in competition:
The Pro-missed land - Painting
Mohammad Sorkabi
An expression of fear is to be trapped in the past. It could be said that by enduring and observing our encounters with the past – often frightening and dangerous – we can transform it into something else. For artists, this transformation can take the form of their artwork. As a photographer, I have created this fear of facing the past in my photographs.
Work in competition:
Tell me who I am - Photography
Federica Patera
Andrea Sbra Perego
An intimate fear that evokes death in a daily echo. To contrast, the title of the work, Can You Understand?, takes up the quotation on the panel; it is the next piece of sentence that, interlocutory, re-establishes the connection with the other, the dialogue, after having immersed oneself in the depths of oneself. I have a great fear of dying without ever really being seen. Can you understand?
Work in competition
Can you understand? - fiber art
Susanna Cati
The labyrinth presents difficulties worse than death, loneliness more fatal than a battle. The Minotaur is the beast to be faced, it is the lurking enemy, it represents the metaphor of the fears that can be hidden within us, to be able to eradicate which a suggestion is almost overshadowed here: we must descend into those labyrinths that grip the soul, into that inner forest where it will be impervious to be able to extricate oneself.
Work in competition:
Who doesn't have his Minotaur?
Textile sculpture
Lucia Bubilda Nanni
I can say that my panic attacks were blessed and mastered, not because in the end I obtained an absolution from the priest, but because they taught me to decipher the phrases, the minimum signs to understand and predict something, rationalize my emotional states and make the delays and rigidities of my skullcap harmless.
Work in competition:
Benedetta Paura - Fiber Art
Annalisa Lenzi
The fear of the other. Fear for those who are different from us, whether it is in origin, religion, appearance or thought. Often, out of fear, we do not welcome him but reject him without even trying to get to know him better.
Work in competition:
The Others - Installation
Rana Feghali
Insomnia and fear often share a complex relationship. Fear and anxiety can contribute significantly to insomnia, making it difficult to relax enough to fall asleep. During times of war, when images of death, grieving mothers and trembling children invade our screens, the personal traumas I experienced during the civil war in Lebanon suddenly resurface, depriving me of sleep and reminding me of my helplessness in the face of such terror.
Work in competition
Insomnia - Fiber Art
Orazio Garofalo
Through a horizontal panorama, a Calabrian natural paradise is also explored in its specular and infernal reverse of war and annihilation. In this dark mirror, having crossed the boundary between two gazes, we perceive the ambiguous limit between human and non-human.
Work in competition:
Death Landing - video
Juris Efneris
The Moons
of Mars was born from the
primordial instinct of survival, using deep fear as a tool and transforming
despair and pain into powerful symbols of resilience. Each piece, designed and
sewn, one line at a time, weaves hope into a tapestry of fear. Witnessing how
the process can transform even the deepest despair into a beacon of hope: it is
a journey through fear, expressed with one's own words and creations.
Work in competition
The Moons of Mars - Installation
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Lisa Van Noorden
At its core, Indomitable Spirit is an expression of the power of the soul
human. We talk about the ability to resist and overcome obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they may seem. The presence of danger and temptation reminds me of the constant threats to our balance. However, the main theme remains triumph and perseverance.
Work in competition:
Indomitable spirit - Installation
Laura Mega
Ceasefire emphasizes the forced blindness of contemporary human beings and their fear of fear.
We build physical, emotional and mental armor, to mask them we decorate them, creating the illusion that everything around us is normal and safe.
Work in Competition
Ceasefire - Fiber Art
Alessandro Botti
Overlaps and stratifications intertwine in a universe far from the nightmare. It is essential to approach the framework to understand... and discover that fear resides only within us.
Work in competition:
Biostratifications - mixmedia
Francesco Di Giovanni
When it comes to migration and disembarkation, we often think only of men, forgetting the presence of migrant women, often invisible, who face the terror of the sea, dreaming of a better future for their children. However, the point of arrival often remains an unfulfilled dream.
Work in competition:
Mayday - video
Elisabeth Tronhjem
All human fears converge in the universal fear of the unknown, which manifests itself in the death of the many anxieties that characterize existence. Aware of their fragility and the transience of life, human beings create utopias that reveal the mystery hidden in the void, explore the inevitable transformation of matter in search of stability beyond form and, in the illusion of being able to delay an ineluctable common destiny, anchor their existence to reassuring ballast. We must confront reality, unmasking the deception of appearances and courageously welcoming the natural flow of time.
Work in competition:
Pendent desire
Sculpture - assemblage
