"Anfällig" Grenze 2025 - Call for Entries

• Grenze - Arsenali Fotografici

• Deadline: April 11th, 2025

• Prize: Exhibition in Verona (Italy) + Accommodation

• Theme: "Anfällig" Frail, Vulnerable, Fragile

• Entry Fee: Yes

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The word anfällig encapsulates a state of perpetual instability—frail, vulnerable, delicate, always on the verge of falling. We move through life with bodies and minds that are never entirely healed, carrying the weight of our past wounds, stepping forward with hesitance. Yet in this fragility, there is an undeniable grace, a delicate balance between strength and surrender. The term Cagionevole, rooted in the Latin causionabilis ("that which can be caused"), speaks to the external pressures that shape our instability. We are weakened not only by ourselves but by the world around us—by uncertainty, by doubt, by the invisible forces that tip us off balance.

Grenze 2025 invites us to study fragility as an artistic and existential theme. It asks us to interpret the way vulnerability seeps into everyday life, how it alters our perceptions, how it transforms the boundaries between the solid and the unstable. What happens when we accept fragility, not as something to be feared, but as something intrinsic to life?

In this light, Cagionevole becomes a celebration of exposure—the raw, unguarded beauty that exists in weakness. It is the human condition laid bare, stripped of pretense, revealing not only suffering but also a profound sensitivity to the world. Photography serves as an instrument to capture this delicate state, turning what is ephemeral into something tangible, something lasting.

Vulnerability exists in the contrast between the small and the vast, the imperfect and the whole. It is found in the withering of organic matter, in the cracks that form over time, in the irregularities that make things unique. It is the intersection of nature and artificiality, the way time etches itself onto landscapes, bodies, and objects, reminding us of our impermanence. Fragility moves along shifting perspectives, tilting toward hope and despair in equal measure. To be Cagionevole is to feel the weight of the world's slow decline, to recognize that everything is temporary, and yet, in that temporality, to find something deeply meaningful.