COME TOGETHER
The theme of the fifteenth edition of Cortona On The Move is “Come Together”, curated once again by Paolo Woods. It explores the reasons why reconciliation is the only viable option, analysing some of the many ways to achieve it, socially, politically and personally. Because reconciliation is something to be achieved not only with others, but most importantly with ourselves.
CRONACHE D’ACQUA – IMAGES FROM SOUTHERN ITALY: An exhibition project in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo
At a time when climate change accentuates inequality and tension, Cronache d’acqua – Images from Southern Italy is a project focused on ten stories, told by five photographers – Cosimo Calabrese, Valeria Cherchi, Eleonora D’Angelo, Giulia Parlato and Roselena Ramistella – with different languages and sensitivities. The pictures reveal social and environmental fractures, but also attempts, many of which silent and resilient, to reconstruct relationships, generate a new awareness and turn difficulties into occasions for exchange and shared responsibility.
Water, a vital resource which is in increasingly short supply, becomes a tangible metaphor of the need for reconciliation: with nature, the territory and with our own communities. The visual narrations move between critical situations and possibilities, highlighting not only what is missing but also what can be repaired by listening, acting and remembering. Continuing on from the previous edition dedicated to Northern Italy, this new leg of the project - originating from the collaboration between Gallerie d’Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo, with the editorial contribution of Green & Blue – documents the present to imagine a more knowledgeable, fair and shared future. Cronache d’acqua proposes an in-depth visual reflection on one of the essential elements that unites - or divides - communities, territories and generations: water. The result is a choral story of ruptures and attempts at reconciliation, extending an invitation to Come Together: recognising difficulties in order to face them together.