A visual journey about cultural heritage and belongings in contemporary Europe. Exhibition launch on June 18th in Copenhagen.

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Reconstruction of Identities is a project developed by a consortium of four partners active in the cultural field in Europe: Ad Hoc Gestión Cultural (Spain), Copenhagen Photo Festival (Denmark), NOOR Foundation (The Netherlands) and SIFEST (Italy). The series of activities of the project aim at encouraging the dialogue between the different cultures coexisting in Europe, using the power of photography to reconstruct the identity of local communities and explore the interaction between locals and newcomers. During two artistic residencies, a group of five European photographers (Katerina Buil, Marine Gastineau, Martin Thaulow, Filippo Venturi and Sanne De Wilde) were sent to a quest to explore through their photographic work the polysemic and dynamic concept of the ‘European Identity’. This new body of work will be exhibited in the four partner countries in 2020. These exhibitions entail one of the core outputs of the project as a direct enabler of dialogue while fostering the capacity building of the group of photographers on a transnational level.

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Sanne De Wilde

Sanne De Wilde (Belgium, 1987) is a photographer member of NOOR. In her photography she explores the role genetics play in peoples lives and how this shapes and affects communities. Picturing people suffering from a condition making them vulnerable in the eye of society. She graduated with a Master in the Fine Arts at KASK in Ghent (BE) with great honours in 2012 and she was awarded the Nikon Press Award in 2014 and 2016 for most promising young photographer. In 2019 she won a World Press Photo for her collaborative project with NOOR Photographer Benedicte Kurzen for "Land of Ibeji" in 2019. She has been internationally published (Guardian, New Yorker, Le Monde, CNN, Vogue) and exhibited (Voies OFF, Tribeca Film Festival, Circulations, Lagos Photo, Lodz Fotofestiwal, IDFA, STAM and EYE).

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Filippo Venturi

Filippo Venturi (born in Cesena in 1980) is an Italian documentary photographer. His works have been published in different newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Das Magazin, Internazionale, La Stampa, Geo, Marie Claire, Gente, D di Repubblica, Io Donna del Corriere della Sera. He produces personal projects concerning identity and the human condition, focusing in particular on the consequences of rapid technological progress in some parts of the world. For the past years he has been engaged in a project on the Korean peninsula, earning him the Sony World Photography award, the LensCulture Emerging Talent award, the Il Reportage award, the Voglino award and the Portfolio Italia – Grand Prix Hasselblad.

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Katerina Buil

Katerina Buil (Barbastro, 1987) is a Spanish photographer who grew up in a family of photographers, living the process of the analogical change to digital that completely transformed the world of photography. With studies in image, she has been professionally dedicated to photography since 2008. Nature is her major motif. She is interested above all in photography that talks about people, introspective and reflexive, something that she considers increasingly difficult to achieve due to the multitude of images that we perceive today. In 2017 she won the BECA VISIONADOS BFOTO, with a work on the role of women in the rural world, with which she has participated in several exhibitions in Barcelona and the Biennial of Olot photography among others.

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Martin Thaulow

Martin Thaulow (b. 1978) is a Danish photographer and visual artist. Originally trained as a fine arts painter, but later expanding his work into photography, video art and multimedia installations. He is a keen collaborator with artists from a wide range of disciplines (music, performance and visual art), with whom he has created a number of installations, performances, set designs, visuals for concerts, music videos and art exhibitions. His work has been shown across the world. He has an inquisitive approach when he investigates the human perception and new methods to combine media - always with the goal of expressing his personal signature and bringing human complexities into play.

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Marine Gastineau

Marine Gastineau (1983) is a french photographer based in Copenhagen. Her photography focuses on storytelling and portrait. In her personal projects she works with the subject of cultural heritage, youth and society. Her work has been published at Politikens Publishing House, Berlingske, and Jyllands Posten., among others. She has done assignments for Red Cross, Visit Greenland, Visit Færøerne, Georg Jensen, Sticks & Suhis, Snow Peak, Det Kongelig Teater, RUM magazine and Assemble Papers Australia. She is the founder of the photography department at Turning Tables Denmark, where she teaches workshops with marginalised youth.

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Reconstruction Of Identities A group exhibition ̋

The 'Reconstruction of Identities’ exhibition is an attempt to think of photography as an instrument of knowledge, capable of giving shape to the dynamic and polysemic concept of the ‘European identity’. In a continent characterised by a large cultural diversity, where multiple nationalities, religions, ideologies, traditions and ways of life coexist, some questions arise among its citizens: How do you stay true to the culture that has shaped your background while also finding your feet in a new world? How is identity formed and can it be modified over time?

On the basis that the relationship with the other is one of the founding characteristics of our identity — an individual feels he/she exists as a citizen when it is recognised as such by others — the aim of the photographers is to draw visual journey about the character of what unites us and remains the same for all of us. This is an open door to a dialogue between all of us, a dialogue on a great common idea, that of a life of peace on the European continent, a participative story of a continent on the move.

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The exhibition is the result of a two-year collaboration between four partners working with photography and culture: Ad Hoc Gestion Cultural, the Municipality of Savignano sul Rubicone – SIFEST, NOOR Foundation and Copenhagen Photo Festival. And we are proud to be presenting the first of four exhibition.

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Join us on June 10 for the launch at Sønder Boulevard in Vesterbro. The event and the exhibition are both free to visit, and the exhibition will be available till mid-July. For more information about the launch, click here. For more information about the artists and the project, visit the website reconstructionofidentities.eu or follow the project on Instagram.

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Visit The Exhibition

The Reconstruction of Identities exhibition will open on June 18 as an outdoor presentation on Sønder Boulevard in Vesterbro in collaboration with Altan.dk. The exhibition will be spread out over two venues, Sønder Boulevard 49 and Sønder Boulevard 101, where selected works by the project’s photographers and photobased artists can be viewed. Reconstruction of Identities is part of #cpfcelebratingphotography. To get an overview of our outdoor exhibitions and satellites exhibitions, use our interactive map, which is available here.

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