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On Friday, April 10, 2026, The Searchlights public portfolio assessment, occurred at Gallerie d’Italia as a part of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival. The Searchlights offered eighteen college students from IED’s Photography BA applications in Turin, Milan and Rome. The occasion represented the second chapter of Ti vorrei dire, a three-year venture developed in collaboration between IED and Gallerie d’Italia – Turin Intesa Sanpaolo. The title of the exhibition recollects the picture of a beam of sunshine chopping by way of darkness to make seen what normally goes unnoticed. The college students developed narratives by which the worldwide and the private intersect, providing a portrayal of the current that addresses themes such because the local weather disaster, programs of imaginative and prescient and surveillance, id, consumption, dwelling, religion, reminiscence, and fragility. The result’s a layered and multifocal exhibition, by which not solely our gaze on the current is questioned, but additionally the method to image-making and photographic approach is examined from totally different technical and theoretical views.
Nicole Pagliuca, “Āmēn”, courtesy the artist and IED Milano
Nicole Pagliuca offered Āmēn, a sequence of pictures devoted to the connection between younger individuals and faith, by which the area of prayer, which is meant to characterize a second of sharing, turns into as a substitute an event for a radical and painful questioning of id. Inspired by masters resembling Mario Giacomelli and Ugo Mulas, she creates pictures with sturdy contrasts that mirror the necessity to rediscover a way of safety in area and in relationships.
Francesca Paoletta, “Come on, smile!”, courtesy the artist and IED Milano
The gaze as a system of management and surveillance is on the core of the works by Guglielmo Benassi, Hunting archive, and Francesca Paoletta, Come on, smile!. Benassi works with the photographic archive of a hunter. The pictures, a few of which embrace the define of a rifle scope, rework the pure atmosphere into an area suspended between life and demise, the place the act of seeing turns into an expression of dominance. The fixed variation in format, definition, and topic, the place pure patterns are likely to abstraction and alternate with excessive close-ups of prey, produces a steady displacement of the gaze. Repetition and alternation masks the violent nature of the pictures, neutralizing them. This system displays the mechanism of the Overton window idea, developed to review the vary of acceptability of public insurance policies. In Come on, smile!, Francesca Paoletta overturns the concept of the smile as a optimistic expression, figuring out it as a substitute as a mirrored image of how patriarchal society has regulated feminine conduct. The smile, became an indication of politeness and docility, would correspond within the animal world to mechanisms of aggression and protection. According to Paoletta, the act of not smiling represents a break from the norm and an affirmation of 1’s character and id.
Linda Chionne, “Oneirai drawings”, courtesy the artist and IED Roma
The Searchlights displays an incredible number of approaches. Linda Chionne, in Oneirai drawings, focuses on early photographic experiments, from the photogenic drawings of William Henry Fox Talbot to Man Ray’s Rayogrammes. From a media-archaeological perspective, she creates a tool that mixes the analog and the post-material, the generative mechanism of the digital camera obscura with the immateriality of synthetic intelligence. If modern life is marked by a visible regime of hyper-stimulation by way of pictures, Chionne creates an inconceivable shift in scale that finds in goals an area of unstable, archaic, and shared associations. On the alternative facet of the identical situation, Arianna Iannone’s work, Latent autobiography, is predicated on her private photographic archive. As Iannone notes, Sol LeWitt had already used the grid as a software to arrange a sequence of pictures. However, whereas the American artist’s observe was aimed to determine within the concept a “machine for making art”, driving a structural reordering of actuality, Iannone transforms her private archive into an information cloud in an effort to attain a synthesis of reminiscence. Starting from typological and chromatic associations, AI disrupts the private regime of reminiscence to create a brand new atlas that makes use of redundancy, repetition, and similarity to flatten the noise of the previous.
Arianna Iannone, “Latent autobiography”, courtesy the artist and IED Roma
Great consideration can be devoted to documentary pictures, each scientific, with Valeria Arrigo’s L’archivio del ghiaccio and biographical, from Daria Giovanardi’s investigation of the “bed rotting” phenomenon in Rotting in bloom, to the works of Eleonora Sanna, Spazio intimo, and Penelope Siria Meneghetti, Così come sono. Eugenia Re, with Arvigo, scala 1:1, conducts a examine of the working-class neighborhoods of Genoa, usually missed by establishments and whose picture is formed by structure. The legacy of Brutalism presents the attention dense, heavy areas that take one’s breath away and recommend a situation of isolation and estrangement, betraying the collectivist guarantees underlying city planning.
Eugenia Re, Arvigo, “scala 1:1”, courtesy the artist and IED Torino
Although the size of the article doesn’t permit for a full account of all of the attention-grabbing tasks that had been offered, you will need to point out – and due to this fact to search for – the photographers who took half within the exhibition: Alice Antonetti (Unhived), Valeria Arrigo (L’archivio del ghiaccio), Guglielmo Benassi (Hunting archive), Leonardo Bandini (Fiume), Linda Chionne (Oneirai drawings), Riccardo Falbo (00), Daria Giovanardi (Rotting in bloom), Arianna Iannone (Latent autobiography), Giulia Leo (Condition/Report), Penelope Siria Meneghetti (Così come sono), Micol Naretti (Sala d’attesa), Francesca Paoletta (Come on, smile!), Nicole Pagliuca (Āmēn), Eugenia Re (Arvigo, scala 1:1), Matteo Rosadi (Consumerism ratio), Eleonora Sanna (Spazio intimo), Sofia Valabrega (Qual è il mio nome), Thomas Voltan (Fuoco pallido).
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The Searchlights: Public portfolio assessment
Venerdì 10 aprile 2026, dalle ore 15:00 alle 18:30
Gallerie d’Italia
Piazza San Carlo, 156 – Torino
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