'unconnected'

From the work of the workshop, organized by Fondazione Studio Marangoni and led by photographer Raimond Wouda, a well-known author and lecturer at The Hague Academy in the Netherlands (KABK), will come the photographic exhibition 'disConconnected,' which is currently scheduled to open on April 16 unless otherwise specified resulting from anticovid requirements, at the Museo degli Innocenti.

With five young photographers, selected through an open call, a reflection was initiated on the relationship between young people and new technologies, which led to the development of specific artistic research on the topic proposed by theIstituto degli Innocenti, which for years has been carrying out important projects with schools for a conscious use of the Web and new technologies.

Following an initial introduction about the project given by Arabella Natalini, scientific director of the Museo degli Innocenti and curator of the exhibition, the works were processed and reshaped during these weeks through online discussion and collective editing sections, taking cues from various inputs both socio-cultural and visually inspired.

The projects carried out by Michelle Davis, Sara Esposito, Giacomo Infantino, Alisa Martynova and Anita Scianò, address the theme through unpublished images, made and processed using electronic tools, proposing, through a plurality of gazes and interpretations, a reflection on a theme of stringent and growing topicality. The multiplicity of views on the relationship between adolescents and new technologies ranges between the real world of everyday life and their virtual social experiences and exchanges.

The projects made by the during the workshop will then go alongside the Wouda photos, part of a photographic project that the same has been running for a couple of years in various schools in Europe portraying groups of students revealing new ways of relating mediated by the use of portable devices.

The workshop-conducted remotely due to security issues related to the spread of the current Covid-19 pandemic-reproduced and amplified in the group of learners the dynamics and relationships central to the theme of the 'disConnected' project

"While the world is becoming increasingly complicated, it is crucial that in today's (digital) society we listen to each other without hastily forming an opinion."

R.Wouda