At the heart of this year’s edition of Senigallia City of Photography is the exhibition Mise en Scène - Images and Books from the Donata Pizzi Collection, set up at Palazzo del Duca and open until Dec. 8, 2025. Curated by Luca Panaro, the exhibition aims to offer an original exploration of the dialogue between photography and artists’ books.
The exhibition presents a selection of works from the Donata Pizzi Collection, one of the most significant Italian collections dedicated to fine art photography. The exhibition unfolds as an interweaving of image and word, recounting the evolution of photographic language from the 1960s to the present and paying particular attention to the contribution of women artists. Alongside the pioneering works of Lisetta Carmi are the experiments of Marina Ballo Charmet and Alessandra Spranzi, up to the more recent research of Claudia Petraroli and Sara Rossi, who investigate new visual and conceptual territories.
The project highlights how photography has managed, over the decades, to reflect major social, political and cultural changes, addressing central themes such as the body, identity, private and collective memory and family dynamics. This perspective is expressed through a multiplicity of languages ranging from photographic prints to artists’ books, from video to self-productions, demonstrating the vitality and transversality of contemporary women’s art practices.
Special attention is paid to the world ofart publishing and the transformations that have affected the photographic book in recent decades, from institutional catalogs to more experimental self-productions. The exhibition path thus aims to invite us to consider the book as a true symbolic and narrative object, capable of amplifying the communicative power of images. A selection of artist videos also offers further keys to interpretation and insight.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual publication, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, which brings together for the first time the authors’ images in a choral visual narrative, capable of restoring the complexity and richness of female points of view in the contemporary art scene. The selection of female artists in the exhibition reflects the plurality of looks, sensibilities and approaches that characterize female photography: from the now-historicized names such as Marcella Campagnano and Lisetta Carmi to the protagonists of the current scene such as Marinella Senatore and Sara Rossi, the works explore the subtle boundary between autobiography and collective memory, body and image, past and innovation.
Mise en Scène aims to invite the public to reflect on the role of photography in relation to other artistic languages and its ability to narrate personal and social experiences, and how the artist’s book can become a place for research and experimentation.
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