SUSTAINABLE VIEWS

Espronceda – Institute of Art and Culture is pleased to present the exhibition “Sustainable Views”, curated by IF – Imagine the Future, based on the homonymous open call (Dove lo Getto)
addressed to artists active in the field of video art and interested in offering a vision creative on the theme of environmental and social sustainability. The project was born thanks to the collaboration between International Istitutions: Turin, Biella (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain): Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, Espronceda – Institute of Art & Culture, Ok Bio, IF.

The “Sustainable Views” exhibition is presented as one of the prizes offered to the winning artists of the open call, to which the collaborating bodies have decided to support eight other artists deemed worthy of exposure. The intention to enhance those works of video art and virtual reality that show a profound reflection on the theme of sustainability. The artists, each with their own creative and expressive language, through their works intend to raise awareness on the theme of environmental and social sustainability through different approaches: critical, utopian or proactive. The works on display thus offer a broad reflection on climate change, on the need for responsible recycling, on the safeguarding of the natural ecosystem and on a post human, zoegalitarian and ecofeminist vision of the future. In this era characterized by anthropocentrism and urgent climatic crises, art assumes more than ever an important educational and ethical role through which to read the current environmenta history and at the same time become a form of profound expression, an engine of awareness and change, to lead to the emergence of resilient behaviors towards current ecological problems.

The author of Bottlefield was awarded the UNIDEE Residency, promoted by Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation, one-week art residency; the authors of Against the Tide, on the other hand, will receive the Workshop Award, promoted by Parco Arte Vivente, which includes participation in a workshop conducted by the artists featured in the PAV art program, with the presentation of their work at the Parco Arte Vivente. The two winning works, together with the honorable mention Overlayed Symbiosis by Giovanni Chiamenti, are presented at Espronceda, Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona and at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto on October 30 on the occasion of Arte al Centro.