This edition of the GU.PHO Festival offers a reflection on the ethics and legitimacy of using other people's visual materials and invites us to critically interrogate the gaze, particularly the Western and Eurocentric one. This year's program features works that focus on the process of re-appropriation and re-signification of material, as in The Fold, by Hoda Hafshar, or on archives of images found and re-ordered according to ironic and critical taxonomie

How can the Mediterranean, a complex space, be represented through artistic devices? How can the body and gestures connect with artistic research and be transformed within the spatiality circumscribed by the sea's surface? In relation to this aquatic surface, how is contemporary photography changing, and what is the role of artistic research in understanding the world today? These questions, which have driven her research from the beginning and are its focus, allow Novell