Photographer Toni Amengual exhibits at Cortona On The Move 2024

The Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) has a collaboration agreement with the international photography festival Cortona On The Move 2024 to schedule a solo exhibition of photography by a Balearic author at the festival, which takes place from 11 from July to November 3 in Cortona, Italy. The winning project from the Balearic photographer is selected through an open call.

This years' winning project is «Androids in the Woods» by Toni Amengual, which has been selected by the directors of the festival, Veronica Nicolardi and Paolo Woods.

Cortona On The Move is held in the Tuscan town of Cortona, in the province of Arezzo. Protagonist since 2011 in photographic production on an international scale, the festival is a point of reference for photographers, curators, authors and critics, and has as its center of interest the documentary narrative, applied to contemporary and socially relevant issues. At a time in history when photography is the most universal means of narrating the world we live in, the festival aims to make it accessible and understandable to the general public and turn it into an engine of culture, exchange and growth.

Every year, Cortona On The Move carries out research on the evolution of the photographic language and increasingly privileges the production and realization of original and unpublished content. In the 2024 edition, the participating projects must focus on the thematic focus "body of evidence" proposed by the festival.

"Androids in the Woods" is a project that revolves around the current phenomenon of socialization mediated by screens, where the corporeity of the human being, his physical presence, has come to occupy a secondary plane in the form that humans relate. According to Amengual, the body of evidence of human existence has been transformed into something "more hetero, photographic, even more holographic than corporeal". The author conceives the project as a critical reflection on how the digital revolution has deprived many interactions between humans of corporeality.

The project was awarded in 2018 with the Mallorca Award for Contemporary Photography.

Toni Amengual (https://toniamengual.com/) has a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona, ​​a master's degree in photojournalism (UB) and a master's degree in art direction and digital media advertising (UB).