Video works from the Academies of Fine Arts in Bologna, Carrara, L’Aquila, Milan, Naples, Rome, Turin, Urbino, and Venice

In a socio-cultural landscape increasingly shaped by technology—where television, cinema, photography, and computers dominate the contemporary visual heritage—the use of video, now accessible to all, has become a tool for the appropriation of images. Thanks to its mobility and immediacy, it continues to captivate artists more and more.

The annual video screening Play is part of the work in project, which is specifically dedicated to the research of young and emerging artists. It serves as a survey carried out in Italian Higher Education Schools of Art, where interest in this medium is steadily growing.

This year's edition has been curated by Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi, and Luca Valerio. For the selection of works, critics, curators, and artists actively involved in the Italian Fine Arts Academies were invited to contribute their expertise by nominating one or two of the most promising young talents who completed their studies no more than two years ago.