THE WINNERS OF ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE | 20th EDITION 2025

The artist demonstrates a highly interesting photographic ability, both stylistically and meaningfully. We’re confident the residency will be an excellent source of inspiration and food for thought for his future projects.

We were impressed with Alessandra Maoggi’s research-based performance practice. Her work draws both from deeply personal and from shared community experiences. We are very curious to see how the project she began in Europe would be further developed and modified when she has the opportunity to immerse herself in the unique wilderness of the Greater Blue Mountains UNESCO World Heritage area where we are situated.

Vincenzo Muratore reveals a profound conceptual maturity and an ethical vision of artistic creation, also thanks to his original methodology that combines traditional materials such as marble with contemporary processes such as 3D modeling and robotic milling.

The artist was selected for her practice in drawing on paper, a technique that fits perfectly with the association’s future projects. Her skill and graphic sensibility make her well-suited to developing the concept of comics as a tool for educational dissemination and communication. The residency in Mozambique, which also includes activities in the villages, offers an ideal context in which the visual language of comics can become an immediate, accessible, and culturally inclusive channel for conveying information and educational content.

The artist’s choice was shared by the entire cooperative, which recognized his visual research’s ability to symbolically represent the theme of the social reintegration of ex-offenders. His works, characterized by interplays of light and shadow and multiple perspectives, allow for diverse interpretations and reflect the coexistence of different points of view. The key word guiding the selection is “fracture”: a concept that deeply resonates with the journey of people who, after the fracture represented by the prison experience, embark on a journey of reconstruction and return to the community.

The project presented here poetically and visually interprets the theme of rebirth, closely linked to the value of recycling and aluminum’s ability to continually transform and regenerate. Through her work, the artist manages to narrate the material’s endless cycle of recovery and regeneration, making tangible the concept that every aluminum object, even after its use, can have a new life and a new purpose.