XVI Encuentros Abiertos
Festival de la Luz
WINNERS
María José D'Amico - Marcel Antelo - Lorena Guillen Vaschetti
It has also been declared of Cultural Interest by the Ministries of Culture of the cities of Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Bahía Blanca, San Miguel de Tucumán, Neuquén and Posadas
Identities in transit
“Your Christ is Hebrew. Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your democracy Greek. Your coffee Brazilian. Your holidays Turkish. Your numbers Arabic. Your alphabet Latin. Only your neighbor is a foreigner."
The Encuentros Abiertos- ‘Festival of Light’ is starting its XVI edition in August and September, 2010.
Under the title “In transit identities”, the Encuentros Abiertos will discuss the topic of “migrations”.
The fact that an individual changes his place of residence one or hundred times is not a new trend . Moving to another country, continent, province, community or even neighborhood is a common practice in the contemporary world. The history of migrations is as old as the origins of humanity. Men and animals from other spices have been traveling across the land searching far and wide for new inhabitants since the stone age.
The nomads, hunters or fruit pickers followed their primitive instincts of survival chasing their prey or migrating according to the seasons of the year and the fruits that the land offers.
Different causes have set people in motion: food, religions, wars, wisdom, and adventures. Peoples have mixed up, new customs have come up while others have disappeared, traditions have been created and alliances have been agreed. Conflicts, discoveries, improvements, inventions, and professions have appeared.
The world entered an incessant, energetic, inexhaustible dynamism that even today continues growing no matter the number of frontiers human beings have set. These walls, real or fictitious, have only made the coexistence between pairs even more difficult.
Nowadays, 191 million people live out of their hometown and 12,7 millions are refugees who have gotten away from their hometown searching for a better lifestyle. Sometimes it is due to economic instability, crisis and political persecutions, sometimes it is only the avidity of knowledge; men, women and children turn out to be forced to walk, by own decision, by need, pacific walk, combative walk, anyway of walk.
2010 is the bicentenary of our first government, an anniversary that commemorates the fight of an united nation in search of fair values and rules for the society. Migrations is the topic proposed for the Encuentros Abiertos – Festival of Light, and it is a proposal to think about the need of integration, tolerance and pleasant coexistence between human beings.
The Encuentros Abiertos suggests individual and collective exhibitions. It includes retrospective ones and exhibitions of well-known photographers and, as every year, the work of new photographers. In addition to exhibitions in museums, cultural centers, and galleries, urban exhibition booths will be set in public places to invite pedestrians to enjoy nice images and get involved.
The call to enroll and join in The 2010 Encuentros Abiertos will start in June 2009.
It is open to photographers whether professional and amateur who send their material and be selected by the art curator responsible for the Festival.
The Encuentros Abiertos will exhibit photographs under the proposed topic. We are not only looking for images as historical and social documents of the migratory phenomenon. We will also value the images that look into the inside, the ones that reinterpret our history, that express the way of a walked path with an own view. We are looking for pictures that be the root of our personality, that talk about culture like a combination of identities that got mixed and have generated a new meaning. The expatriate will leave something that will be remembered with sadness and nostalgia. Happiness, memories, smells, lost images. The person who arrives will find, build, root to the ground, learn, project. There is an enormous stream of hopes and experiences to share, uncountable number of images and stories to be added to the road to be listened to and watched that help us to keep on walking and not to give up.
Elda Harrington
Official Openingns of the Exhibitions:
General San Martín, Av. Corrientes 1550
Rojas. Av. Corrientes 2038. Closes September 8th.
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