FUTURES Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis brings together the works of six international artists selected by FUTURES Photography, a European platform for emerging photography and the cultural partner for this project.

This multi-venue group exhibition explores the theme of metamorphosis as a process of individual, social, and environmental transformation, offering a multifaceted perspective on the tensions shaping our times. After being presented at Fotograf Zone in Prague, the Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, the exhibition arrives in Turin as part of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival in a new, expanded version that involves various independent venues across the city and strengthens a network of collaboration between independent organizations and new generations of contemporary photographers. It will subsequently be presented at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest.

The exhibition was produced with the support of the European photography platform FUTURES, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. The theme was developed by a dedicated curatorial team from three member organisations of the platform: Světlana Malina (Fotograf Zone, Prague, Czech Republic), Emese Mucsi (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre, Budapest, Hungary) and Raphaëlle Stopin (Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, France).

Claudia Amatruda at Mucho Mas!

Máté Bartha at Witty Books

Benedetta Casagrande at Almanac

Anna Orlowska at Quartz Studio

Yana Wernicke at Jest

Ada Zielinska at Cripta747

The project is supported by CAMERA Torino and co-funded by the European Union.

Claudia Amatruda (Foggia, 1995) is a visual artist based in Bologna, Italy. After graduating in Photography from NABA Milan, she deepened her research into the relationship between body, technology, and nature through photography, video, sculpture, and installation. In 2019 she published Naiade, a photo book presented in schools and festivals to raise awareness about invisible illnesses. Since 2021, her project When you hear hoofbeats think of horses, not zebras has been exhibited across Italy, Greece, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. In 2022 she received the Special Mention for Emerging Photography at the Francesco Fabbri Prize, and in 2023 she was listed among the 30 under 30 artists by Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2024 she exhibited Good Use of my Bad Health at Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, earning a mention in the Luigi Ghirri Prize. In 2025 she will have solo shows at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm and later a solo show at the Verzasca Foto Festival in Switzerland. Her next photography book will be published by RVM Hub by the end of the year. Her works are part of public and private collections.

Máté Bartha (1987) is a Budapest-based artist working in photography and documentary film. His practice aims to reenchant the world through world-building, impersonation, and the creation of personal and collective mythologies. Bartha blends symbolic and subjective interpretations of urban space, treating the city as a site of imaginative transformation. His work often combines staged and documentary imagery, archival material, and speculative narratives, and has been widely published and exhibited. He holds Master’s degrees in Photography (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, 2011) and Documentary Filmmaking (University of Theatre and Film Arts, 2016), and is currently a doctoral student at MOME. His first photobook, Common Nature (2014), explored the ambivalence of urban space as a mirror of the unconscious. Kontakt (2018), a portrait of Hungarian military youth camps, won the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles (2019). His recent work, Anima Mundi, a fictional urban encyclopedia, received the Main Jury Prize at Les Boutographies (2024). His ongoing project, The Dice Man, is a chance-based photographic pilgrimage through grief, memory, and city space.

Benedetta Casagrande is an artist, writer, curator and educator working with photography. Her practice unfolds through slow research, centering slowness as a principle of observation, of attunement, of deceleration and constant repositioning, in an attempt to situate the human experience of the world within wider webs of relations, times and spaces. As a medium which is fundamentally based on encountering the world, she works with photography as a tool to enter in relation to the surrounding environment, cultivating a relationship with the non-human. Her research reflects on the material histories of the photographic medium, trying to situate her practice with consciousness towards the dynamics of environmental destruction and experimenting with sustainable practices. Her work has been shown in national and international venues, amongst which PhMuseum, PhotoIreland, Fotografia Europea and Triennale Milano. She is the recipient of the Luigi Ghirri Prize and FE+SK book award, thanks to which she published her first photobook, All things laid dormant (Skinnerboox, 2024). In her free time, she works as a volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation centre.

Anna Orlowska (Opole, Poland, 1986) is a photographer and visual artist. She studied photography at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź and the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava, and was awarded the Photo Global scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York. The artist uses photography to reveal hidden layers of history and its ideological conditioning, often absent from official narratives. Blending conventions, like documentary and staging, she exposes hidden myths and legends, deconstructing fantasies about the past, and creating new constellations of meaning. Her photo-based objects test the boundaries of the medium. Orłowska treats the medium of photography as an instrument of research on the very notion of knowledge and a possible tool for the work of memory, which are both fragmented by nature. Her practice engages with historical spaces and the memory of places (e.g., the Museum of the Earth in Warsaw), seeking ways to revitalize and reactivate them.

Yana Wernicke (1990) is a German photographer based near Frankfurt am Main. Her work often focuses on the photographic representation of animals and the relationship between humans, nature, and other beings. In collaboration with photographer Jonas Feige, she developed the project Zenker, which was published as a book by Edition Patrick Frey in 2021. In 2023, she released her book Companions with Loose Joints—an intimate portrait of two young women who have formed deep bonds with animals, exploring themes of species loneliness and interspecies connection.

Ada Zielińska
I am a visual artist working primarily with photography, video, and installation. My main area of interest revolves around the idea of destruction perceived as a prerequisite for rebirth – in this regard, my practice serves as a particular form of self-therapy. My creative approach centers around catastrophic events, whether experienced in real life or staged – not merely to document, but to explore their aesthetics and the emotions they evoke. Drawing from the notion of post-photography, I attempt to extend the same approach to my audience, purposefully creating the most photogenic environment. This invites the viewer to try and explore the aesthetics and emotions evoked by my own work.