Cortona On The Move 2023

he IEB has a collaboration agreement with the international photography festival Cortona On The Move 2023 to schedule a solo exhibition of photography by a Balearic author at the festival, which takes place from 13 July to 1 October in Cortona, Italy. The winning project is selected through an open call.

The project selected in this edition is "Warlike Approaches to Tourism: All Inclusive" by Marina Planas.

Cortona On The Move is held in the Tuscan town of Cortona, in the province of Arezzo. Protagonist since 2011 in photographic production on an international scale, the festival is a point of reference for photographers, curators, authors and critics, as well as for the public. Under the direction of Veronica Nicolardi and the artistic direction of Paolo Woods, it has as its center of interest the documentary narrative, applied to contemporary and socially relevant issues. At a time in history when photography is the most universal means of narrating the world we live in, the festival aims to make it accessible and understandable to the general public and turn it into an engine of culture, exchange and growth. Every year, Cortona On The Move carries out research on the evolution of the photographic language and increasingly privileges the production and realization of original and unpublished content.

The project "Warlike approaches to tourism: All inclusive" has its origins in a commission that Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma made to Marina Planas in 2020. It questions the use or abuse of places that have become major tourist destinations. She works with archival images and raises questions related to historical memory, which is necessary to understand the present, the environment and different aspects of feminism. The series allows us to address the need to rethink history, understood from a territorial perspective but also from a political, artistic and sociological perspective.

Imatges of the exhibition at Palazzo Baldelli

Photos: Matteo Losurdo Kublaikan