European family and food - 8 photographic commissions

The joint exhibition of the European project SETSE , European Family and Food - Eight photographic commissions, organised by Elio Grazioli -  is the presentation of a selection of images taken by photographers that took part in the project centred on the exchange of public and residence commissions. The exhibition is intended as a moment of reflection on photography as a language that crosses through art and society. The topic chosen  - European Family and Food – is the frame within which the authors move about to point out and look into the social, cultural, religious and anthropological aspect of society in the perspective of the foreigner that watches, observes and studies the changes and describes them, to then give them back through the photograph.
It is possible to also see eight videos at the exhibit venue. They contain the complete documentation produced by the various authors, who in first person tell the story of their photographic projects. In this way the visitor has the chance to become acquainted with the complexity of the various photographic research studies conducted, the criteria that guided the work and the methods with which the artists have put themselves to the test in a challenge that is both conceptual and technical. The travelling exhibit, inaugurated in Reggio Emilia at Fotografia Europea 2010, is being offered again in Valencia in September.

Tomasz Gałecki (Poland), Petra Cepková (Slovakia), Georgios Makkas (Greece), György Gáti (Hungary), Simona Ghizzoni (Italy), Kapa (Finland), Vanessa Pastor (Spain), Alain Willaume (France).

Info
Centro Internazionale per l’Infanzia Loris Malaguzzi
Via Bligny, 1/A - Reggio Emilia
ph. 0522 451152, 0522 456249
www.setse.eu
Single ticket for all exhibitions 10€. Concessions 7€

Open Times:
Opening Friday 7th May, 12.00
8th - 9th May from 10.00 to 23.00
From 10th May to 13rd June: from Tuesdays to Fridays from 17.00 to 20.00; Saturdays, Sundays and festivals from 10.00 to 23.00. Monday closed.

The conference of the European project SETSE European Family and Food: a look at European identity, broken down into three days, explains and studies in-depth the theme by looking into the sociological and educational aspects associated with it, in addition to the critical and theoretical aspects regarding photography.


FRIDAY, 7 MAY

The family and food: a look at European identity
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi
09.30 - Giovanni Catellani (Councillor in Charge of Culture and University of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia): The European SETSE project and Fotografia Europea: the cultural strategies of the city of Reggio Emilia

10.00 - Maddalena Tedeschi (Reggio Children): Food and education. Multi-cultural food and education. Experience in the schools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. Reggio Children and the Atelier of Flavour

12.00 - Opening of the final exhibition European Family and Food– Eight Photographic Commissions

Photography as language: new interactions with multicultural families
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi
15.00 - Adil El Marouakhi (Manager of the Centro Interculturale Mondinsieme): Intercultural portrait of a  migrant family in Reggio Emilia

Municipal Museums
16.40.- Georgia Cantoni (Municipal Museums) Mothers and families: a route between cultural inheritance and testimony from the city.
A visit to the exhibition at the Municipal Museums is offered afterwards

Piazza Martiri del VIIII luglio
17.00 – Opening of Fotografia Europea 2010


SATURDAY, 8 MAY - Piazza Casotti

The methods of contemporary photography commissioning and their cultural effectiveness
09.30 - Ana Marti Teston (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ) presents Petra Cepková and Vanessa Pastor

11.00 - Vanni Codeluppi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): The family and new forms of documentation: the Home Movies project of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

15.30 - Adriana Polveroni: Photography, clients between research and memory

17.30 - Fabrice Courthial (Rencontres d’Arles) presents Simona Ghizzoni and Alain Willaume


SUNDAY, 9 MAY - Piazza Casotti

The role of the photographer as historian and contemporary mediator in the extended culture regarding the family
10.00 -  Laurie Short and Lucia Benická (Dom Photographie): Concepts, content and culture. The photographer as facilitator in exploring the family and food
11.00 - Éva Fisli (Hungarian National Museum) presents Kapa and György Gáti
15.30 - Kimmo Lehtonen (Univerity of Jyväskylä): Doctrine of domestication: metaphor and aesthetics of the documentary
17.30 - Andrzej Florkowski (Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan) and Stavros Moresopoulos (Hellenic Centre for Photography) present Tomasz Gałecki and Georgios Makkas
19.30 - Elio Grazioli, Laurie Short and all of the photographers of the SETSE project: Final conference of the SETSE project: through a stranger’s eyes

Interpreting service by STUDIO 3