THE 2022 PRIZE, ninth year, " DISABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION for AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY" - Submitted works

TRAUMA
The spark of the lighter represents the trigger of a traumatic event which creates a spider that stands for the trauma itself. The video stop motion shows the creation of a red spiderweb around a lighter. The scene will show multiple sparkles which will make the creation of the spiderweb fas...

TOO MUCH
For this project i made clay vessels with words embossed, to highlight the rigidity,
fragility and emotional turmoil which an individual suffering with mental health
often experiences. at times these episodes can seem overwhelming,
insurmountable, confusing and exhausting , resulting in...

PERCEPTION 
Carl Jung said: Thinking is difficult that is why most people judge.
‘Perception’ challenges our views of how both mainstream and marginalized people see each other. It does this by expressing different viewpoints of the same entity.

SEMPER AUGUSTUS
The video tells the story of Vincenza, a woman who has a rare genetic disease Friedreich’s Atassia. Vincenza’s voice guides the viewer through metaphors comparing her illness to a rare tulip streaked with red veins, called Semper Augustus, modified by a virus that causes it to weake...

SILENT COMMUNICATION

Silent Communication focuses on the positives of those who are deaf/hard of hearing. To portray my models’ personalities, I encouraged them to wear jewellery and clothing that expressed them. This aided me in showing how they are equal in society and how technology has create...

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS TO RENEW THE WAY OF THINKING
We reflected about the meaning of the word "inclusion", thinking about how to make it concrete: we, as artists, have the task of activating a process, while the five guys of the association where we woked have the task of completing it.
And here is t...

AFFECT
Despite difficulty understanding others, most autistic people are strongly empathetic. The ability to care without understanding exemplifies autistic people in a society that demands justification for human needs - and being understood is a barrier to being respected. Affect is an ongoing pu...

MOTHER'S MENTAL HEALTH

Mothers with mental illness face a paradox. We balance on the borderline of wellness, somehow functioning. Help is all-or-nothing, an ironic example of black-and-white thinking. Either we are reported to social services and fear losing our children, or the fact that we get ...

DISABLED COUPLE IN THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD
 
Wang Yanping and Li Minqiao are a rural couple from Shandong, China. Since husband and wife are both disabled, the burden of supporting the family has always been on the father, but his father died suddenly of a heart attack, which made the poor family...

VOICES
Having a disability is like talking a different language: disabled people are left confused and isolated, like wild animals trying to move in a busy and loud beltway. 
We need to make room for different voices and needs to be able to listen to each other and grow together, especially in a w...

This story is about the everyday pain of a disabled woman with complex health needs. She visualises her pain as a big fat wrestler called Everyday Pain and her pain relief as a cruel but tempting dominatrix called Sister Morphine.
The woman is an art student and faces lots of everyday difficulties....

OBSERVED
 
This work is called "Ossèrvàti", It is inspired by the unconscious actions of observing and being observed of which we become protagonists every day. I realized, thanks to long walks in the company of the volunteer group to which I belong, that still, as in past centuries, those who app...

A SERIES OF INTENSITY
These prints demonstrate the tension of anxiety where your stomach is in knots. Turmoil underpins this series, describing where your mind is tangled and trapped, and this displays physically. I wanted to describe overthinking so I would rework and repeat the printing process o...

DISABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION
The work represents the non-sensitivity of today's society. The heart is black because our society lacks attention to others. Only when we begin to include people with disabilities in society will we be able to live in a world where attention to others comes first. Thi...

FRAGMENTS
 Fragments responds to the mental health condition anxiety through an arrangement of plaster castings. This work considers the actions and gestures that we feel and experience physically every day while living with a mental health condition. Our hands are the tools of everyday use but her...

TO BE HUMAN
 
In this society today, people with disabilities are not given a voice or are only
considered for their shortcomings, instead of considering them as people,
like the rest of us.
There is a desire to be accepted for who one is, showing oneself without fear
to the spectator in a...

CAN YOU RIDE A BIKE?
 
The first bicycle narrates the normal condition of a person within society which is represented by the soil.
The second with square wheels tell the position of a person with disabilities: the way of life in a society that isn’t always inclusive.
The last narrates the state...

DISABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION FOR AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY
 
This illustration aims to express how dance on wheelchair for people with physical disabilities could be a fundamental moment of transformation and inclusion in the contemporary society.
It benefits from the beauty produced by the rhythm,...

DISABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION FOR AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY 


This is a watercolour painting. There is a woman in a wheelchair dressed in dungarees and a straw hat. She is gardening.  There is soil and green vegetables growing out of the planter. In the background there are colourful flowers, tall tr...