Ten under-35 artists' video works about the post-pandemic world on display at the Tobacco Factory

From November 9 to December 12, 2021 Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence presents the exhibition Thinking Beyond - Moving Images for a Post-Pandemic World, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte and NAM - Not a Museum. The exhibition is part of the 14th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte - Festival of cinema and contemporary art.

Works made by the ten artists participating in the tenth edition of VISIO-European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research and residency project aimed at artists under 35 working with video and film, will be on view. This is the second installment in a cycle of exhibitions, inaugurated in 2020 with Resisting the Trouble - Moving Images in Times of Crisis, which aims to reflect on the ways in which artists relate to the complexity of the present by overcoming established canons and models and imagining new possible worlds. The selected films, videos and installations aim to celebrate the transformative power of art and the ability of artists to read tragic and traumatic situations as generative opportunities.

“In light of the global crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said curator Leonardo Bigazzi, “it is legitimate to ask what role art can play in a process of finding new reference points and how artists contribute to the construction of a collective narrative. This year’s exhibition still reflects all the uncertainties of the period we are living in, but at the same time it intends to imagine new alliances and alternative models from which to start again.”

The artists selected for this edition are Nelson Bourrec Carter (1988, United States/France), Alexandre Erre (1990, New Caledonia/France), PHILTH HAUS (1997, United States), Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk (1992, Ukraine), ChongYan Liu (1995, China), Eleonora Luccarini (1993, Italy), Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi (1988, Germany), Eoghan Ryan (1987, Ireland), VEGA (1990/1993, Italy), Janaina Wagner (1989, Brazil).

Also awarded to the Ukrainian artist duo Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk was the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize, which consists of the acquisition of a work by the Seven Gravity Collection, a private Italian collection entirely dedicated to video works by contemporary artists: the awarded video is entitled Dedicated to the youth of the world II.

The selection of participants was made in partnership with Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Art House (Shkodra), AV-arkki - The Centre for Finnish Media Art (Helsinki), Careof (Milan), Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero Madrid, Cité internationale des arts (Paris), De Ateliers (Amsterdam), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam), Royal College of Art (London), Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm), Städelschule (Frankfurt), Universität der Künste Berlin, Vilnius Academy of Arts, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre (Brussels).

Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 3 to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Free admission.

Image: Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Dedicated to the youth of the world II (8’49’’, 2019). Courtesy of the artists

Ten under-35 artists' video works about the post-pandemic world on display at the Tobacco Factory

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