Gian Marco Sanna’s project Paradise critiques how modern society's relentless pursuit of excess and conformity ultimately enslaves individuals, leading them away from genuine freedom and towards a self-inflicted downfall, while Jalal Shamsazaran’sThe Wind Will Take Us Away illustrates the devastating effects of climate change in Sistan and Balouchestan (Iran), forcing mass migration and instilling profound despair, yet revealing a resilient community confronting an undeniable present-day reality of environmental crisis.
In her project Tell Me What I’m Remembering, Claire Sunho Lee delves into the fragility and fluidity of memory, sparked by the artist's own vague childhood recollections and the revelation of a hidden past illness. Eirini Androulaki also addresses illness in her ongoing photo series Didn’t Mean to Keep You Waiting, exploring universal human conflicts surrounding sickness and death and invites viewers to reflect on the unspoken paradoxes of existence.
In Between by Nora Obergeschwandner explores the complex interplay of intimacy, distance, and attachment in human relationships through her portraits of people in their private spaces. With his portraits of Armenian men in moments of vulnerability and retreat, Konstantin Musinyan challenges dominant archetypes and questions what it means to be a man in his project Shaped By The Stream. Poppy Jessop, too, inquires into gender stereotypes in her project Butcheress with her surreal images that juxtapose hyper-feminine objects within male-dominated butcher shops to question gendered perceptions.
In his project, Framing the Unborn, Sungchul Lee uses his own living space, meticulously taped and rearranged, as a metaphor reflecting on the desensitization and objectification inherent in photojournalism.
The Dice Was LoadedFrom The Start, the collaborative project by Valeria Calendar and Eleana Konstantellos under the pseudonym Melka, uncovers Mexico City's geopolitical significance as a central stage for US-Soviet intelligence rivalries that transformed the city into a crucial node in the struggle between capitalism and communism during the cold war.
