Venue: Studio Tommaseo
via del Monte 2/1, Trieste

Artists: Alterazioni Video, Gea Casolaro, Beatrice Catanzaro, Nemanja Cvijanović, Raphaëlle de Groot, Andrea De Stefani, Paola Di Bello, Nico Dockx, Johanna Domke, Andrea Galvani, Stella Geppert, Bernardo Giorgi, Alban Hajdinaj, Luzia Hürzeler, Valentina Miorandi, Ulrike Mohr, Ciprian Muresan, Andrea Nacciarriti, Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh, Giovanni Oberti, Giovanni Ozzola, Alessandro Piangiamore, Cesare Pietroiusti, Wilfredo Prieto, Riccarda Roggan, Martina Sauter, Albrecht Schäfer, Marinella Senatore, Heidi Specker, Aslı Sungu, Nasan Tur, Enzo Umbaca, Luca Vitone, Driant Zeneli

Curator: Julia Trolp

What could be defined today as unique, incomparable, extraordinary or valuable? Which are the things, the moments and the situations that stand out from the ordinary and increasingly fast flow of our daily life and thus become something exceptional or special? The curator Julia Trolp asked this question to 34 artists who answered with photographs accompanied by short texts. From 4 September to 16 October 2010 Trieste Contemporanea and L’Officina present the answers of these artists in an international exhibition at Studio Tommaseo in Trieste. The original works will not be displayed, but only the prints of the photographs will be, therefore the only work on show and the true protagonist of the exhibition will be an 80 pages publication.

The conceptual resort to the publication expresses the main feature of a photograph, namely that it can be reproduced. At the same time it draws on Walter Benjamin’s thought who wrote in his famous essay of 1936 that “to ask for the ‘authentic’ print makes no sense”.

Therefore, shape and content, reproduction and uniqueness stand in clean-cut contrast and the exhibition is 34 time uniqueness without unique works.