Vernissage ENGAGE - Art exhibition in public area (only german & italian)

MEET engage - teilnehmen - partecipare Fiè - temporary exhibition on the village square - Art in the public space 09.05 - 31.10.2025 Vernissage 09.05.2025 - at 7.00 pm on the village square Artists: Marianna Gostner archival prints and photographies Kuratorin: Eva von Ingram Harpf The third edition of the temporary outdoor art installation for the town square of Fie sees Marianna Gostner a local multidisciplinary visual artist as protagonist. Gostner engages with archival photographies of local women and men and has selected a few outstanding portraits of late farmers in their festive garb - the so called Tracht. She displays them on site specific mounted frames all over the square of the old town of Fie. Moreover the shop windows of the well known Delago house will be covered with works where the artist has done some interventions to alter their aesthetic aspect. Mariann Gostner works a lot with „negatives“ of the photographic film and shows them in their nude , rough version. Life size photographies are placed good visible throughout the square of Fie to welcome visitors to engage with the people on the works. The artist want the local people as well as visitors to step into a visual dialogue where every frame invites participation, reflection, and emotion. Engage is a curated collection of photographs that challenge the passive gaze and demand attention—each image a moment of connection between subject, photographer, and viewer. Intimate portraits of proud South Tyrolean citizens in the works explore what it means to truly engage—with people, with places, with the present. Whether through confrontation, curiosity, or quiet contemplation, the photographs speak volumes in silence. This is not just an exhibition to observe. It’s one to experience, to question, to feel what the people on the works must have thought and felt int the moment the portraits were taken.