The call closed with the participation of 333 projects from people from 43 different countries. The general level was quite high and the jury spent days to make the votes, with this final result:

The winner of the first prize (with 23 points, out of a possible 25) was the French Florence Cuschieri with her work “Exodus”.

In second place, tied in points (21) are the works “Oasis: In our quarantine yard” by Irmina Anna Walczak (Poland), and “Ignoscentia” by Sina Niemeyer (Germany).

“Exodus”

It is a project about the scars of a “forgotten people” that explores, with photography and image documents, the notions of memory, housing and exile.

The artist questions the memory of a time, places and people known.

This project is conceived as a search for a proper identity, a personal research on the past of the exile of her ancestors.

“Oasis: In our quarantine yard”

It is a series created during the 95 days of her family’s confinement in a Spanish countryside, a place where they were surprised by the enclosure.

It explores the experience of social distancing in a rural area where space is expanded, but at the same time, human presence is scarce. Contact with nature is intensified and silence and leisure are filled by observing natural events.

“Ignoscentia”

Her work manages to open up the subject of child sexual abuse to others through the use of subtle images that function as metaphors and thus leave room for interpretation. She combines different methods such as photography, video, sound, writing, graphic design and various layers of material such as old family images, destroyed images, self-portraits and found objects.

In addition to these first 3 exhibitions, we will also try to exhibit those of the third classified (with 19 points), which are 8 more projects.

And in turn, give the possibility to those classified with 17 and 15 points, so that they can exhibit in the OFF galleries, both in Barcelona and in other cities of Catalonia and the State, according to the needs and demand of these.