From December 28 to January 20, 2024, Susanna Occhipinti Gallery in Ragusa will organize an exhibition Nanni Licitra Ragusa upside down. Fifteen shots in which the young photographer turns his gaze on suburbs, non-places, and urban and fragile society which often animates them.
Ragusa upside down
Comment Susanna Occhipinti gallerist and exhibition curator: Nanni Licitra is a young talent of Italian photography, a passionate supporter of analog photography. In a standardized society that often fails to recognize people due to the defense of old principles, Licitra faces a different reality and faces it with all its contradictions in an unconventional way, away from stereotypes and their sociocultural paradigms”.
Therefore exactly, the choice of black and white and external, detached, spectator view. A view “capable of asking questions and telling fresh, almost secret stories of people and places”. But above all, the choice of analog photography gives life to a “defined, blurred, moving aesthetic to underline the contemporary but also timeless».
Nanni Licitra
Born in 1988, his projects were exhibited in prestigious participation such as Analog Mania Festival, Timisoara (RO) in 2014, London Analogue Festival, in London in 2014, Sehnsucht shows at Lomography’s New York West Village store, in New York in 2016, Charter Festival / Mojo Exhibition in Rome in 2021 to Chemistry of Feelings, Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai in 2021, Pleasure 0.3 Invisible Presence at Spazio Bidet in Milan.
He has received important awards, including the prize for the best portfolio at the Ragusa Photo Festival2021 release, with project Hell Ends which became a photo book inspired by the words of the late David Wojnarowicz: “Heaven is a place in your mind, Hell is a place on earth.”
Time tables: Monday, from 17:00 to 20:00; from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free entry.
