Breaking the silence of closed museums: Rome's Gallery of Modern Art launches #DomaniInArte contest

A photography contest entitled #DomaniInArte has been announced, promoted by theAssessorato alla Crescita culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali with the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale, in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura.

To participate, artists can send a photograph of their own unpublished work that represents a personal point of view on the serious global situation we are experiencing. An operation that, in addition to representing an opportunity for expression for the artists involved, wants to break the silence of closed museums to create an artistic atelier made up of many voices and languages of art, without linguistic preclusions or barriers of judgment and without limits to the use of techniques.

The contest, active until June 30, 2020, invites artists to send a photograph of one of their works that represents them (represents us) in this grave global situation. But let it also be an image of a work of hope that looks to tomorrow, taking into account the artists’ point of view, with a vision and a look therefore “other” than the reality of the contemporary drama we are all living. A work that goes through the current silence of closed museums, of frozen art projects.

The attempt is to create an art atelier made up of many voices and languages of art, from more traditional to more experimental techniques and including writing (e.g., visual poetry, urban poetry, poetry-concept, etc.) and sound design. The participatory contest is free and open to all artists over the age of 18, their poetic and aesthetic choices.

This is a way for the voice of Italian art to be heard as well, along the lines, for example, of the “support” forItaly by major international artists, such as Ai Weiwei posting the long and despairing obituary lists of the “Eco di Bergamo” or Zehra Dogan photographing Kurds with writings that precisely support Italy. Or even, like Jenny Holzer ’s video-messages with short poetic phrases about longing for life and the future, to Shirin Neshat ’s burning red candle that is consumed in her film and Cities and Memory’s archive of urban sounds of lockdown global cities.

All submitted works are posted on the Gallery of Modern Art’s social channels(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and, when the museum reopens, reproduced by means of a monitor in the museum’s video room/library during July-September 2020. Thereafter, the photographs will be stored in the Gallery of Modern Art’s digital archives where, upon request, they can be viewed.

Breaking the silence of closed museums: Rome's Gallery of Modern Art launches #DomaniInArte contest

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