Exhibition: Roberta Segata – We are here

Opening: 28.1.2020, 19.00
Exhibition: 29.1. – 22.2.2020

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

Roberta Segata’s photographic project features the storm known as ‘Vaia’ that struck on 29th October 2018, and its aftermath for the ‘Magnifica Comunità’ of Fiemme and much of the Eastern Alps. That day the face of our woodlands was changed, laid low by a wind travelling at nearly 200 kms per hour. It wrecked everything: the landscape and the lives of the inhabitants. We are here is a non-account of what happened. Thoughts hanging suspended: what is natural and what not? How does humanity dialogue with nature before and after the irreparable? What does it mean to take time out for things to sink in – when all around there is aggressive clamouring for a quick solution? Such is the expectation we’ve been living with. We still are.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

One year on from the maelstrom, a host of trees lie flat, despite the community’s constant efforts to safeguard a valley economy based on wood. The magnitude of the event outstrips all possiblity of removing the casulties before nature decomposes them. But life is adjusting all by itself in the penumbra of the forest; the human impossiblity of tidying up the disaster is turning into an opportunity. And the community follows suit: the flattened forest poses a dramatic opportunity to rethink man’s relation with nature, the mountain economy, the future, the past. We are being forced to compare notes with our neighbours, reminded as we are that territorial confines are often political, and by no means so natural. They are a legacy from people who decided the way they did long, long before our time. Which saddles us with the responsibility for those who come after our day of action, and reap what we have sown.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

We are here, as a concept and a project, stems from the joint labours of Roberta Segata, Virginia Sommadossi and Elisa Di Liberato, the minds behind Trentino Brand New, a project by Centrale Fies art work space featuring “stories in a minor key” and cultivating new images for the territory.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.20

In its first edition the exhibition was produced by the Cavalese Contemporary Art Museum and the Cavalese Municipality’s Cultural Office, curator Elio Vanzo (Director of the Contemporary Art Museum).

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

Roberta Segata has a double education. She graduated in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti G.B. Cignaroli of Verona and studied as teatrodanza dancer at the Carolyn Carlson Accademy in Arzo, Switzerland, and in her atelier in Paris.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.20

Her artistic work was inspired by the fusion of these two realities as she uses the body as a narrative frame and photography and video as fortunate means of expression.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.20

In all her works of art, Nature has always been an intense protagonist. She aims to seek a dialogue, a way to find her roots, an unconscious landscape that contributes to a reflection on the humankind.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.20

Today her artistic practise has evolved her focus on the Territory, the place of belonging, by developing projects that involve the mountain Communities illustrated through the eyes of nature, people, their relationship and their history, their tradition and their changes.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

In the latest years, she has worked with various galleries, festivals and Italian and international institutions.

She has exhibited at Galleri Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden; Athens Video/Art Festival, Athene, Greece; Chapelle des Carmélites, Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France; FotografiaEuropea, Reggio Emilia; RBcontemporary gallery Milan, Italy; Galleria Civica Trento, MART; MANIFESTA7, Italy; Kerry Film Festival, Ireland; Women in Photography, New York.

She has won important awards in Italy and abroad such as the first REW[f] Romaeuropa Webfactory – Jpeggy Award, the jury’s special mention at Women In Photography International, New York and the first international Art Prize La Colomba, Venice.

ROBERTA SEGATA – “WE ARE HERE”, EXHIBITION AT FOTO FORUM, BOLZANO/BOZEN (ITALY) 29.1. – 22.2.2020

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