Information on the exhibition:
Like a whisper rising from the valley, the Verzasca Foto Festival comes to life in the quiet that marks the first days of autumn in the mountains. The trails winding among ancient stones, along the emerald-green river, welcome deep silences… and then the voices of those arriving from near and far. People do not come to the Festival just to look at photographs – they come to live an experience that weaves together landscapes and people, unexpected encounters, and reflections suspended between light and stone.
Visitors to the Festival tune into a different rhythm. The works of international artists breathe among villages, forests, and waterways, in dialogue with the mountains and with those who inhabit them. The exhibition paths become opportunities to walk through a collective gaze; one made of questions, stories, and mutual sharing. Here, every step and every image invites you to slow down, to observe, to be moved by both the visible and the invisible.
This year’s edition draws inspiration from one of the valley’s most vital and profound elements: water, both as a form and a metaphor. The exhibited projects explore its role in shaping the landscape, as well as its power as a mirror for nomadic and fluid identities: untamed, elusive, slipping through rigid definitions and imposed borders. The Festival welcomes images that flow and cannot be contained: stories of threatened territories, bodies that move upstream, visions where water becomes a voice for those who are marginalized.
An event by:
Artists
Cristóbal Ascencio, David Uzochukwu, Cansu Yıldıran, Hahn + Hartung, Laurence Kubski, Luis Cobelo, Claudia Amatruda, Alice Pallot, Matthieu Gafsou, Marta Panzeri, Yann Gross, Sara Munari, Jana Hartmann, Katja Loher, Emilio Nasser, Javier Cerrada
Programme and special projects
Parallel Exhibitions/ Esposizioni Parallele
- VFF Awards, Brione
- Residencies, Officina Adriano, Frasco
- Moving Structures, Casa Azul, Gordola
Images
