Toulouse welcomes until July 11, 2021 its new edition of festival MAP. For this 2021 edition, the dream photo festival of Italy. Italian, Franco-Italian and French artists working in Italy therefore share the fruit of their research. From the look that Italian photographers have on the world to that of their French colleagues in this multifaceted territory, the MAP festival celebrates our transalpine neighbor.
© Claude Nori
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Claude Nori, guest of honor
A native of Toulouse, photographer Claude Nori is the guest of honor at the emblematic festival of his hometown. His love of Italian cinema mingles with his own memories to offer us cinégéniques images collected along the Adriatic coast from Capri to San Remo. The carelessness of adolescence and the period lends his photographs a slightly nostalgic sweetness.
© Dominique Laugé
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Poetry is tinged with wonder for the beauty of Sicily at Dominique Laugé. In Toulouse, the photographer offers to rediscover the fruit of his “long and happy photographic stroll”, a photographic road trip in monochrome then guided by the words of Goethe.
Caroline Gavazzi
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Nature is also at the center of the work of Franco-Italian photographer Caroline Gavazzi. The latter proposes to linger on the butterflies for which she watches for the almost magical appearance on the foliage.
From collective memory …
Others, like Julien Goldstein, revisit the dark hours of the country. After exploring the history of the former Soviet republics, the photojournalist used his residence at the Villa Medici to document the architectural heritage inherited from Mussolini. These urban landscapes of the 1930s mark the city with the scars of a nation.
© Julien Goldstein
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Franco-Italian photographer Émilien Urbano navigates between past and hot news. His series Skin (the skin), against the backdrop of Naples, city of everything threatened by the presence of death, from the disturbing silhouette of Vesuvius to the epidemics that have made their way around the bends of its alleys.
© Emilien Urbano
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With Apice, Valeria Laurano invites the viewer to imagine the story behind archival photographs of this ancient village., today destroyed by successive earthquakes and emptied of its inhabitants. Through this selection, the Neapolitan artist infuses the force of creation into a tale of destruction and abandonment.
© Valeria Laureano
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… to individual memory
However, the MAP Toulouse festival leaves room for more intimate narratives. For her first French exhibition, Tua Sorella, the Italian Veronica Barbato pays tribute to her missing sister. The artist offers in Toulouse an installation between pop and street-art.
© Veronica Barbato
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Toulouse by adoption, Maud Wallet is offered two exhibitions by her city of heart. Têtes de Quartier, commissioned by the city, consists of a portrait gallery of the inhabitants of the Bonnefoy district, traders and residents take center stage in this exhibition installed in their neighborhood. His second PI exhibition focuses on the fragmented body, the sensuality of curves becoming almost abstract, the result of an attentive litho silver print.
© Maud Wallet
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Pasquale Autiero, on the other hand, directs portraits of those who marked his life in this “stormy city” that Naples embodies for this photographer of experimentation.
Lucia Buricelli’s approach mixes chance and documentary. Guided by her curiosity, she offers images that want to explore both herself and the world around her and those she meets there.
© Cristina Rizzi Guelfi
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Humor and irony come to Toulouse under the hand of Cristina Rizzi Guelfi. By replacing the faces of contemporary selfies with photographs from image banks from the 1950s to the 1960s, the photographer questions this need, which is as obsessive as it is philosophical.
Ciro Battiloro and Giulia Frigieri winners MAP 2021
Two prizes reward the work of the photographers exhibited in Toulouse. Ciro Battiloro was presented with the MAP Grand Prix for Sanità, survey of one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Naples where exclusion flirts with the quest for meaning and identity.
The festival’s 2021 Revelation Prize goes to Giulia Frigieri. Winner of several awards and grants, here is her series Surfing Iran which thrilled the Toulouse jury. She follows Shahla Yasini, the first woman to surf in Iran, a long-term project on this inspiring pioneer who became a friend.
© Giulia Frigeri
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A multifaceted narrative journey to discover the Italian peninsula, the MAP festival is to be discovered in Toulouse until July 11, 2021. More information on the event is available on the dedicated website.
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