Alinka Echeverría Wins MAST Photography Grant; Inventions Show Opens
The MAST in Bologna has granted its biennial Photography Grant on Industry and Work to Alinka Echeverría, a Mexican-British artist, for her 2020 project 'Apparent Femininity,' which highlights the often-ignored roles of women in cinema and computing. The exhibition, overseen by curator Urs Stahel, showcases four finalists selected from 47 entries: Chloe Dewe Mathews (UK) addresses environmental degradation in 'Mar de Plástico'; Maxime Guyon (France) examines myths surrounding machines; Aapo Huhta (Finland) juxtaposes human perception with algorithmic evaluation; and Pablo López Luz (Mexico) reflects on socio-cultural changes in window displays. Additionally, MAST is featuring 'Inventions,' curated by Luce Lebart, which presents surreal photographs of inventions by Alfred Machin from the ONRSII archive (1917-1935).
Key facts
- Alinka Echeverría wins MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work for 'Apparent Femininity' (2020).
- Grant exhibition curated by Urs Stahel includes finalists Chloe Dewe Mathews, Maxime Guyon, Aapo Huhta, Pablo López Luz.
- Aapo Huhta's work contrasts human perception with algorithms from Google API Vision and Microsoft Seeing AI.
- Concurrent exhibition 'Inventions' curated by Luce Lebart features ONRSII photographic archive (1917–1935).
- ONRSII was led by Jules-Louis Breton, inventor and head of Sous-secrétariat d'Etat aux Inventions.
- Photographs by Alfred Machin depict inventions like dishwashers, hoists, and thermos bottles.
- ONRSII invented the giant susceptometer, a major physics research instrument.
- Exhibition draws connections to New Objectivity, Pop Art, and Surrealism.
Entities
Artists
- Alinka Echeverría
- Chloe Dewe Mathews
- Maxime Guyon
- Aapo Huhta
- Pablo López Luz
- Alfred Machin
- Jules-Louis Breton
- Carl Grossberg
- Gottfried Brockmann
- Konrad Klapheck
- Andy Warhol
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Tom Wesselmann
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Franco Vimercati
- Marcel Duchamp
- Max Ernst
- André Breton
Institutions
- MAST (Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia)
- ONRSII (Office National des Recherches Scientifiques et Industrielles et des Inventions)
- Sous-secrétariat d'Etat aux Inventions
- Microsoft
Locations
- Bologna
- Italy
- Spain
- France
- Paris
- Central America
- South America