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ART PRIZE 2024

4th edition

– Notes on taking care

What does taking care mean today? Of oneself,of the other from oneself, of things, of art?
«To Care», «To Cure», listening to needs, allowing time. It is an emotional work, a re-generative action of physical and symbolic bodies.

ALA Art Prize 2024 is intended as a moment of reflection to explore the phenomenology of care through visual languages. Annotations on things to do – or to remember – to take care as a medium for critical analysis, as a multidimensional move, a daily action capable of weaving together the plots of individual lives and the interconnected networks of global society.

1st Prize
Catherine Biocca

Special Mention
Veronica Bisesti

Shortlist
Camilla Alberti
Catherine Biocca
Veronica Bisesti
Teresa Gargiulo

Scientific Committee

Giovanni Carmine

Eugenio Viola

Alessia Volpe

CATHERINE BIOCCA

CLOUDY CARE

2024
PU and PVC, industry marker, ropes, hand sewing, phone
various measures/site specific

The Cloudy Care project is an interactive art installation designed to provide emotional connection and a sense of comfort to visitors.
At the heart of the work are three traditional telephones fitted on wall shelves, allowing participants to pick up the phone and listen to positive and encouraging messages, recorded and activated by a hidden audio system.
This experience involves both visitors and ALA staff members, fostering moments of authentic human sharing.

The voices used are those of the employees, invited by the artist to take part in the project’s production.

Visually, the installation represents two human figures made of a cloud-like material, which create an effect of softness and three-dimensionality. The figures, wrapped up in an embrace, convey a deep sense of intimacy and connection, integrating with the surrounding clouds.

Cloudy Care offers meaningful breaks for the ALA staff, promoting a work environment based on mutual care and empathy. The “healing calls” are not just symbolic gestures, but an opportunity to build an organizational culture that puts everyone’s well-being first. Each message of love and support becomes a precious moment to reconnect with values of community and solidarity, transcending the merely artistic aspect and touching the heart of human experience.

Catherine Biocca
Graduated in Political Science from Luiss Rome in 2006, Catherine Biocca (Rome, 1984) studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, where she obtained her BA and MA in 2010 and 2013. Between 2014 and 2015, she was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
He has received international prizes and awards including STRABAG Award (2015), Beweezen Talent of the Mondriaan Fond (2016), AFK Projektsubsidies (2016), Hans – Purrman Förderpreis (2017), ROSE Mambo Residency (2018), Ursula Wanders Stipendium (2020), Berliner Senat Arbeitsstipendium (2021).
His work has been exhibited internationally in biennials, institutions and galleries including: III Shenzhen Animation Biennial, Kunstverein Nuremberg and the Kunstmuseum LOK in St. Gallen.
Some of the latest solo exhibitions include Kids room, Greengrassi, London (2022), POV You are my leftovers and I’m happy to see you, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Fondazione VOLUME! Rome (2021), Deep Dive with Justitia, curated by Peter Bencze, Kunsthalle Kosice, Kosice (2021), SOBSOBSOBSOB, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam (2021), Milky Seas, PSM, Berlin (2020) and YOU ́RE HIRED!, Museo Villa delle Rose – Mambo, Bologna (2019). She currently lives and works in Rome.

Veronica Bisesti
Veronica Bisesti was born in Naples in 1991.
Her research starts from an accurate study of the past, to open a process of exploration on the present. Historical narratives and its symbologies, in relation to certain figures of the past, become fields of analysis for the creation of new scenarios.
Her solo exhibitions: Dove brulica l’altrove, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (2023); Fulmini dame e altre storie, Museo MADRE, Naples (2022); Dalla nube sibila il canto, ArtVerona, Verona (2022); Ruah, Macellum/Tempio di Serapide, Naples (2021). Among her group exhibitions: Interaction, Fondazione Made in Cloister, Napoli (2024); E la mia terra è dove l’erba trema, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2023), Rosa alchemico, Fondazione Miniartextil, Como (2022); A cielo aperto in una stanza, Associazione Vincenzo De Luca, Latronico (2022), The expanded body, Galleria 1/9 arte contemporanea, Rome (2021), There is no time to enjoy the sun, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2021); To be here and there, Forte di Montericco, Pieve Di Cadore (2019); Sottobosco, Palatul Bànffy Muzeul National De Arta, Cluj-Napoca (2018).

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