Premio Combat Prize

IN/CANTUS - We want and need to connect to other people. It’s the essence of us being human. It’s through connection, that we touch upon our most basic sensations: fear, anger, pain, pleasure. My new project explores these fundamental human emotions that unite us. I’m fascinated by the refined forms of communication between humans. I explore what creates harmony between two human beings and focus on the sensorial and emotional communicative exchange. For that, I dive deeply into the four fundamental psychological layers: perception, emotion, behavior and knowledge.
BIO - Francesco Francaviglia is a Sicilian photographer with international focus, who among others has worked with Marina Abramovic, Patti Smith, Edouard Louis and repeatedly had the honor of photographing the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. Coming from a background in music as a studied cellist and dedicating himself to work-ing as a photographer he explores basic human emotions and fundamental traits of the human experience. In several social and human rights orientated projects he examined what a rapidly changing society does to the individuals. In his book ”The Fasting Women against the Mafia” and in later works he explored the very innate drive of strong characters that fight the Italian Mafia. HIs work was presented, as solo exhibition, in several public museums such as the Riso Sicilian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Macro Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. In autumn 2014 he became the first living author hosted by the Uffizi Gallery. He resides in Berlin and Florence.