We are pleased to announce the curatorial selection of the fifth edition of PANORAMICA*.
PANORAMICA*25 aims to bring together the most original and significant video art works created in 2025, promoting the experimental audiovisual production of the territory and offering a current overview of ongoing research. The cultural aim of the project is to collect and then share the most relevant works with audiences through exhibitions and screenings in national and international circuits, as well as to produce a curatorial text that will contribute to the research on Italian video art that Visualcontainer has been pursuing since 2008.
PANORAMICA*25 // LIMINAL CARTOGRAPHIES
To map today does not mean to describe a territory in a neutral way, but to recognise that every map is a device: it selects, orients, produces visions and omissions. Liminal Cartographies brings together works that inhabit thresholds between the natural and the artificial, memory and simulation, body and machine, intimacy and platforms, crisis and transformation. From the choral soundscapes of Val Badia and Elba to virtual architectures inhabited by avatars, from narratives entrusted to AI to posthuman ecologies reconstructed in data and pixels, to the city of Milan observed as a field of surveillance and the war that invades the background noise of the present: “place” becomes political, perceptual and emotional matter.
The selection returns practices that do not merely represent, but construct conditions of vision, shifting the point of view onto a critical map of the present: not to close a discourse, but to keep contradictions open, make thresholds visible and measure — in the moving image — what traverses us today.
VIDEO SELECTION
Citron/Lunardi – Kingdom Plantae – 4’03”, 2025
Lorenzo Papanti – Costretto nel parziale, abito la mia contraddizione – 3’12”, 2025
Nicola Bertoglio – You hurt me – 1’44”, 2025
Marco Gentilini & Veronica Orrù – Inevitabile – 3’00”, 2025
Plurale (Leonardo Avesani/ Chiara Ventura) – Gesto 7 – 17’11”, 2025
Atefeh Khas – Happy Holidays – 2’42”, 2025
Massimiliano Marianni – Normal Litio – 11′, 2025
Gianni Barelli – Il Paesaggio non è innocente – 8’42”, 2025
Francesca Longo – What It Was To Be Me – 5’27”, 2025
Cosimo Iannunzio – Suspension of belief – 7’13”, 2025
Thanks to all the artists who participated in the selection of PANORAMICA*25.