March 2023
Presentation Wednesday March 29th, 7 pm,
La Bête – A Modern Tale. With Yasmina Benabderrahmane, published by Mack
In 2012, Benabderrahmane returned to her home country of Morocco after 12 years, crossing the dunes and plains to create Super-8 films mapping out the ever-changing landscape. The film stills collected in this book invite us to follow the path winding between tradition and modernity. We travel to the Bouregreg Valley, a new cultural centre which symbolizes the modernity and changing physiognomy of ancestral lands. Further afield, we discover the desert plains of Chichaoua, rocky an
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March 2023
Call
New Bodies. Gender Practices in Contemporary Art Publishing.
Queer Pandèmia is a call that came out from a project of TWM Factory, and we at Leporello are happy to be partners of this project as a jury for the photographic projects section, participating in the creation of a dedicated space for publications within the ULTRAQUEER exhibition in Milan and with a dedicated book display in Leporello's spaces from May 31 until the end of July.The selection of titles on display, in c
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March 2023
Presentation Wednesday April 5th, 7 pm,
Swim till I sank, with the author Gabriele Stabile in conversation with Tiziana Lo Porto. Published by RVM.
“What happens to journalistic reportage photographs when the news is published, outdated and years of new news put distance between the shot and the life of the image?” This seems to be the question Gabriele Stabile asks himself when, after more than a decade, he reopens his archive and begins his creative journey with the photographs deposited there, transforming them into the plates you see as you leaf through the book. The photographer’
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