Cortona On The Move 2024

Since 2019, the IEB has maintained a collaboration agreement with the international photography festival Cortona On The Move to schedule an individual exhibition of photography by a Balearic author. The selection of the project is made through an open call and professional photographers from the Balearic Islands can submit a project that covers the theme proposed by the festival for the exhibition schedule.

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the evolution of the photographic language and increasingly privileges the production and realization of original and unpublished content. In the 2024 edition, the participating projects dealt with the thematic focus "body of evidence" proposed by the festival.

The Balearic project selected by the festival jury was "Androids in the Woods", by Toni Amengual. It is a project that revolves around the current phenomenon of socialization mediated by screens, where the corporeality of the human being, its physical presence, has come to occupy a secondary plane in the way that humans have to relate.  According to Amengual, the body of evidence of human existence has been transformed into something "more hetero, photographic, even more holographic than corporeal". The author conceives the project as a critical reflection on how the digital revolution has deprived many of the interactions between humans.

The project was awarded in 2018 with the Mallorca Award for Contemporary Photography.

Toni Amengual (https://toniamengual.com/) has a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona, ​​a master's degree in photojournalism (UB) and a master's degree in art direction and digital media advertising (UB).

The photographic projects of Balearic authors shown in previous editions of the festival have been "L'illa" by Beatriz Polo, "Badlands" by Tomeu Coll and "Enfocaments bélics del turisme: All inclusive" by Marina Planas.