Gibellina Photoroad - Call For An Open Air Installation 2025

What role does vision play in a condition of total openness? How are new meanings created in an empty space? Gibellina Photoroad / Open Air & Site-specific Festival invites photographers, artists and curators to apply to participate in: Call For An Open Air Installation.

A project will be selected for an open air and site-specific installation/exhibition, which will be exhibited in the fifth edition of the festival (20June - 20 August 2025), the entrance in the Permanent Collection of Fondazione Orestiadi, and the publication in the catalog and in digital and paper publications of the festival.

The projects must relate to the Festival’s theme 2025, Timeless.

There is the time of physics, where an object moves from point a to point b, or that of a ray of light imprinted on a negative, to represent a supposed ‘reality’. There is the time of relativity, which depends on the observer. There is the time of logic, of ‘cause and effect’, and historical time, which investigates human progress. It is a time which unfolds like a scroll: it has a beginning, it will have an end. Then there is the time of life, which for Henri Bergson is a ball of thread, an avalanche: each instant contains in its entirety the whole of the past and has in it the germs of the future, and this time is not calculated in minutes or even years. It is an inner, intuitive time, not only memory, but above all unconscious.