Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela
The Mesh and the Circle
Winners of the International Lo Schermo dell’arte Prize 2013
Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival is pleased to announce that Portuguese artists Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela have won the fourth edition of the International Lo Schermo dell’arte Prize, the only award of its kind in Italy, which supports production of video by international artists under 35 years old.
The video will be presented as a world premiere during Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2014.
The jury—Adam Budak, freelance curator and curator of the Estonian pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia 2013, Maria Lind, director of the Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and Silvia Lucchesi, director of Lo Schermo dell’arte—have chosen to award the 10.000 euro prize to the project The Mesh and the Circle by Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, for its experimental and interdisciplinary character. The project intends to create an inventory of images linked to ritual, work, play and domestic activity in diverse regions of Portugal, considered in their gestural, material and aesthetic aspects as archetypal forms of consciousness.
Every year, Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival invites ten artists, selected by five curators, to submit a project for the production of a new video work. In addition to winners Caló and Queimadela, selected by Filipa Ramos, Portuguese art critic and writer, curator of the online platform Vdrome, the other artists invited to the International Lo Schermo dell’arte Prize 2013 were: Basma Alsharif (Kuwait), Riccardo Benassi (Italy), Egle Budvytyte (Lithuania), Nina Hoechtl (Austria), Rachel Maclean (United Kingdom), Ahmed Mohsen Mansour (Egypt), Najib Mrad (Lebanon), Jamie Shovlin (United Kingdom) and Ola Vasiljeva (The Netherlands).
The selection of the participants was also by Raimundas Malasauskas, freelance curator and curator of the Cyrpus and Lithuanian pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia 2013; Hila Peleg, artistic director of Berlin Documentary Forum; Sarah Perks, Programme & Director at Cornerhouse, Manchester; and Khaled Ramadan, Lebanese-born curator, writer and videomaker.
Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela are Portuguese artists, born in 1984 and 1985. They started working together while studying in Porto. Since 2010, they’ve been working on Gradations of Time over a Plane, a project in progress on the symbolic manifestations of the conception of time in natural territories and in spaces created by man, utilizing diverse expressive means: film, projections, video installations, site-specific projects. Recent solo shows: Chart for the Coming Times (Villa Romana, Florence, 2013), Chart for the Coming Times (Rowing Projects, London, 2012), The Springs of the Flood (Matador Projekt Raum, Berlin, 2011) and Gradations of Time Over a Plane II & III (General Public, Berlin & Casa das Artes, Fundação Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra, 2011).
Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival was founded in Florence in 2008, and is dedicated to exploring, analysing and promoting the relations between contemporary art and cinema through the presentation of artists’ films, documentaries, video installations, talks and workshops.
It is supported by Regione Toscana and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. Among international artists who have attended the festival are Isaac Julien, Omer Fast, Alfredo Jaar, Anjalika Sagar, The Otolith Group, Phil Collins, Melik Ohanian, Sarah Morris, Shirin Neshat, Simon Starling, Adrian Paci, Jane and Louise Wilson.
The prize was assigned to Mariana Calo and Francisco Queimadela during the sixth edition of the Festival, which was held in Florence from 13 to 17 November 2013.
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