SI FEST - Savignano Immagini Festival

Visioni geogarfiche (Visual Geographies) is the title of the 34th edition of SI Fest - Savignano Immagini Festival in Savignano sul Rubicone, one of the longest-running and most internationally established photography festivals, scheduled for three consecutive weekends from Sept. 12 to 28.

In an era marked by environmental fractures, geopolitical tensions, forced migrations and changing identities, the event, led by the scientific committee composed of Manila Camarini, Francesca Fabiani, Jana Liskova and Mario Beltrambini, aims to be an invitation to rethink the way we inhabit the world not only in physical space, but also in the places of memory, perception and imagination.

Through Visual Geographies, SI FEST continues with its work of cultural investigation of the present, gathering and interweaving looks from different places, histories and sensibilities, in a historical moment that requires listening, complexity and imagination.

Some of the scheduled exhibitions:

• Hashem Shakeri, Iranian author among the most lucid interpreters of contemporary fractures, presents a powerful work on Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban.
• Skagit Valley by Michael Christopher Brown, an author already known for his work made with a smartphone during the Libyan revolution, reflects on the future of agriculture and rural life in Skagit Valley, Washington state, through images generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
• Where the World is Melting by Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson - a witness to Arctic communities for more than four decades - will lead into the Arctic ice, between Greenland, Siberia and Iceland.
• Evgenia Arbugaeva, the Russian artist who chronicles Arctic Siberia in a style suspended between reportage and fairy tale. With her shots - colorful, dreamlike, pervaded by silence - she will transport us to an enchanted elsewhere, where reality seems to melt into light.
• Uso Singola, visual universe of Lorenzo Urciullo - in art Colapesce: a work an intimate and layered photography, born from more than ten years of shots collected during travels, tours, returns home.

Among others, the program is completed by a choral account of the flood in Romagna, workshops with schools, and two important tributes to Marco Pesaresi: one dedicated to his connection with the city of Bellaria Igea Marina, while the other - which will take place in Rimini with the exhibition RIMINI, Forbidden. The Words of Pier Vittorio Tondelli in the Images of Marco Pesaresi inspired by Pier Vittorio Tondelli's book Rimini, conceived as a dialogue between his text and Marco's photographs.

Surrounding this curatorial core is an articulated program that will involve the entire city of Savignano sul Rubicone with meetings, portfolio readings, prizes, guided tours, educational activities and participatory projects.

⇒ Visit the SiFest website to learn about the entire program!

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"We live in a time when boundaries are shifting, breaking down, redefining. Boundaries between human and environment, between real and artificial, between intimate and collective. We chose Visual Geographies because we feel the urgency to build new maps - not to orient ourselves, but to understand. Each photograph in this edition is a trace: a fragment of landscape, an engraved memory, a threshold that helps us read the present and imagine the future." - SI FEST Artistic Committee