BIVACCOURBANO_R 2014
Jaimini Patel, born in England in 1974, was proclaimed the winner of the Diogene Bivaccourbano_R 2014, the eighth edition of the international competition organized by the Diogene Project in support of artistic research to be carried out in the Turin area.
The selection was made by a committee composed of the artists of the Diogene Project (Franco Ariaudo, Andrea Caretto, Manuele Cerutti, Luca Luciano, Laura Pugno, Raffaella Spagna, and Cosimo Veneziano), who assigned the London-based artist access to the consolidated half-year residency program of Bivaccourbano, beginning in September in the Diogene tramcar located on the roundabout island in Corso Regio Parco. In addition to the opportunity of staying in Turin to develop his work, Jaimini Patel will receive a research grant to support her costs and a studio where she can work on the development and execution of works. This is an award that, on the one hand, has evolved and is structured through a research grant (for the first time divulged with an official international open call competition), and on the other, confirms the determination of the Diogene Project in recognizing the strategic importance of the artists and their visual research for the development of the territories on the basis of cultural and social inclusion of the general public through artistic activities.
In the next six months, Jaimini Patel will develop a specific project for the places and architectures that will be hosting her, starting with considerations of research on materials and everyday objects and their capacity to change over time, in order to attract the viewers’ attention concerning their consistency, history, and relationship with the surrounding environment. In line with her path, Patel will attempt to study the balance that is triggered between nature, people, objects, and culture as parts of a whole viewed from a dynamic and evolutionary diachronic perspective. In this creative process, it will be important for her to meet with local artists and craftsmen, a dynamic that is facilitated by the mediation skills of the members of Diogenes Project with the institutions and situations in Turin.
The Diogene Bivaccourbano_R 2014 artist residency program offers a fellowship thanks to the contributions from the San Paolo Banking Company and the Piedmont Region, with the sponsorship of the City of Turin and the collaboration of GTT, Turin Transport Group. The members of the Diogenes Project are pleased to announce the name of the artist selected, and thank all the candidates who posted their material and participated in the contest.
