2 Oct to 1 Nov, Brighton & Hove

Daniele Cimaglia and Giuseppe Odore Lago La Dote di Latera

2 Oct – 1 Nov 2026, Wed – Sun (12:00 - 16:00) or by appointment
University of Brighton - Wilmot Gallery 
Explore the works of 5 emerging talents selected by Photoworks from the annual Luigi Ghirri Emerging Talent Award, Italy, presented in the festival in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute. Daniele Cimaglia and Giuseppe Odore are an artistic duo whose photographic work explores the relationship between collective memory and vernacular imagery.  In their works they combine community engagement with darkroom experimentation and archival reactivation. They transform private memories into collective narratives as a gateway to explore urgent issues.

Rosa Lacavalla’s work The Crossing Ceremony is a moving image installation that combines found footage of the Equator-line crossing rituals, both vintage and contemporary, with evocative imagery of the stars. The work invites viewers to embark on a voyage alongside King Neptune, the revered guardian of the oceans, as he prepares for the crossing of the Equator Line journey. The work charts the symbolism of traversing an invisible threshold, intertwined with the unrelenting movement of the night sky.  Find Rosa’s work in the room 101 gallery at the University of Brighton. 

Serena Radicioli’s work Non sei più tornato stems from a personal history. In 2012, my father was lost in a clash between two criminal groups. The artist never knew what her father’s real job was. When he didn’t return home questions remained unanswered until, a decade later, the artist began to research to collect evidence to reconstruct fragments of the story. Radicioli’s work combines public and family archives together with her own photographs created in response to unresolved loss and photography’s role as a critical tool in rebuilding meaning. 

Anie Maki’s series titled Milk, Weight, Gravity reconstructs an elusive narrative focused on ancestral histories. It references the psychological and mental health dynamics that had been silenced for decades but had reappeared like ghosts in the artist’s life, much like the artist’s family album, it was filled with a chaos of voices, faces and untold stories. The core theme is the legend of genetic depression in the family. In the work the artist presents a panorama of characters, connections and place as a non-linear way of reconstructing her family tree and sharing thoughts in response to a century of family stories. The photographs delve into the psychic heritage in search for answers as she traces threads left by ancestors, invisible but recognisable as patterns across generations, in search of an understanding and acceptance of the past that can shed new light on the present, but also on the future.

Un/Stable
Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Festival
2026

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