« RETURN TO THE SENSIBLE »

FORGET? PRESERVE? TRANSMIT?

What futures do archives hold in the age of digitalization? What remains of the sensible world?

Cycle of conferences at the San Rocco auditorium

Thursday, May 18, Friday, May 19, and Saturday, May 20. Please note that conferences in English or French will be simultaneously translated into Italian via live broadcast at the Palazzetto Baviera auditorium.

Fair and collectors’ market at the Foro Annonario

Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20, 2023.

La Muta Competition: « A very personal story. » Public voting on May 18, 19, and 20 before 2:00 pm. Please consult the competition rules and the map of the city center with the location of thirty shops with display windows and places for presenting projects.

Tribute to Pierre Apraxine, evening conference at the Rotonda al Mare, Friday, May 19, 2023, at 6:00 pm.

Gala evening and announcement of La Muta prize winners at the Rotonda al Mare, Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 8:00 pm.

Conference in honor of Nino Migliori with the awarding of an honorary title from the Comune di Senigallia, at the Rotonda al Mare, Sunday, May 21, in the afternoon.

Film screenings on photography at the Il Gabbiano cinema, Thursday, May 18 and Friday, May 19, in the afternoon.

Exhibition program:

Rocca Roveresca, ground floor:

« Was it only that? » A day in the life of Charles Baudelaire, a reconstruction exhibition of the poet of the Flowers of Evil’s visit to photographer Eugène Carjat in December 1861.

Who is afraid of their own image? Anxious gazes and signs of discomfort in the earliest daguerreotype portraits.

(Exhibition produced as part of the Erasmus program, Margot Dubois, Salomé Alary, Clément Thomas, Lucas Vanelstraete, Master of Art students at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France)

Palazzetto Baviera, ground floor:

Solange Brand, Fragment of a revolution, China, 1966-1967.

Continuation of the exhibition at the Biblioteca Antonelliana, Foro Annonario. The Red Walkers of the Cultural Revolution.

Palazzetto Baviera, noble floor:

Flavio Damm, images of Brazil, 1955-1975 (with the Flavio Damm Foundation, Brazil, exhibition curator Zaven Paré).

« Tondo, Tondi »: Why is the round format so rare in the history of photography? An investigation exhibition in collaboration with the Daniel Blau Gallery, Munich.

« Lost Photos, Found Photos », treasures of small and large collectors, Collection Yoskowitz – New York, Collection Zaven Paré – Rio de Janeiro, Collection Lugosi – Paris, three collectors engage in dialogue with the public.

« Photographs of vibrations, photographs of sand, photographs of sound »: Cymatic images by Hans Jenny and Christiaan Stuten, sand sculptures in Sardinia (exhibition curators Estelle Hassenforder and Alexandre Steger)

Palazzo del Duca:

Sue Park, under the supervision of the Comune di Senigallia.

Mario Giacomelli, permanent exhibition of the civic collection of the city.

Rotonda al Mare, Piazzale della Libertà:

Denis Freppel, Ephemeral architectures of Los Angeles, 1970s.

Visionaria (annex of Palazzo del Duca):

« Raw Photo. Experimenting with vernacular ore. Exercises in distorting photographic archives. » Exhibition of student work under the artistic direction of Nicolas Devigne (Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France).

Atelier 41, via Fratelli Bandiera:

Giorgio Cutini, Beech, a tree for a photographer, 22 images for 22 emotions.