From the 16th of December to the 22nd of January 2025
Panoramica is an annual project by Visualcontainer that showcases the best of Italian experimental audiovisual production. Alessandra Arnò curates the project. This year, the project is presented on VisualcontainerTV, providing an excellent opportunity to showcase this essential curatorial project worldwide as the year ends and a new one begins.
Panoramica*23 aims to gather the most representative works of the past year as a survey of the formal experimentation of the medium and the socio-political context. Artists who live and work in Italy were invited to present their produced works, and the most significant ones were selected based on the emerging topics from the artworks, the originality of the language, and the contemporary research and experimentation of the audiovisual medium.
PANORAMICA*23 // BODIES MATTER
Matteo Campulla – AN ETERNAL IDLENESS, 3:10, 2023
Silvia De Gennaro – Gaia – Uni(co)verso, 03:35, 2023
Enzo Cillo – Destruction of the Field, 12:00 (extract 4:00), 2023
DEHORS/AUDELA (Salvatore Insana, Elisa Turco Liveri) – RED, 5:00, 2023
Carlo Galbiati – Le mot couleur, 1:00, 2023
Massimiliano Marianni – In between, 4:20, 2023
Anouk Chambaz – Mon rire est cascade, 2:40, 2023
Emma Scarafiotti – Nettuno: Birth of a Shell, 7:00, 2023
Sara Bonaventura – Practicing Defence, 15:00, 2023
Gianni Barelli – La zattera della Medusa 3:14, 2023
Mariangela Bombardieri – Data, 30:00, 2023
Duccio Ricciardelli – Marco Bartolini – The Rorschach programme – number 1, 4:00, 2023
The curatorial selection shows the complexity of the representation of the body and the human through the reflections of twelve artists who investigate with heterogeneous languages the relationship between the physical body and the digital simulacrum, between re-mediation of vision and visual suggestions that reach the reality, raw and current data.
The multiple themes covered reveal meta-bodies’ obsession with the virtual world, the anxiety of bodies and the self to adapt to reality, and the need to unfold in other forms to claim their status. Suppose virtual bodies inhabit the digital space and connect to a vision of another world, where thought becomes a flow of frequencies that deconstruct space and time in a reassuring suspension. In that case, bodies of flesh and blood must defend themselves and fight for their existence and visibility. They must confront social limits and conventions, sometimes imagining changing skin or coexisting and implementing strategies to assert themselves.
Within an introspective and visual loop, the spectator is invited to reflect on visible and invisible bodies and, finally, to get involved in a well-known projective psychological exercise.
Visualcontainer is a platform that was established in 2008 to research and promote video art and new media works. The platform’s primary objective is to showcase and highlight artists who work with the latest digital audiovisual languages, from hybrid forms to experimentation with new media, and to engage and captivate audiences and professionals. This long-term project aims to support and promote digital culture and emerging artists in Italy and beyond through a network of promotion and dissemination. As a result, we are always looking for new perspectives and partnerships.
Alessandra Arnò is involved in researching, scouting, and promoting audiovisual and multimedia works. She curates video art exhibitions in museums, private and institutional spaces, and festivals. Additionally, she shares her curatorial research and expertise in video art and new media by participating in conferences, round tables, and festival juries.