Open Theme nominee

Interno was born from the desire to create a body of work that would play on the pure power of the image, without the constraint of a story to tell.
Through the insistence of a look based on exclusion, the construction of a symbolic space is undertaken.
The result is a sequence of perturbing and sinister images that follow one another almost as if to form a puzzle.
An open work that does not need an instruction booklet, but invites contemplation.

Born in Rome in 1984, Valerio Polici began his path in photography as a self-taught, to later attend specialization courses in Rome, Padua, Paris, Riga. In 2015 he was selected for the Irregular Laboratory of Antonio Biasiucci in Naples.

Initially he worked in photo journalism, publishing on the major national and foreign magazine (Washington Post, Newsweek, British Journal Of Photography, L'Espresso), to later explore a more intimate dimension, in which photography became an essential tool for inner exploration.

His first book, Ergo Sum, was presented at Paris Photo in 2016, produced in collaboration with Polish artist Rafal Milach and designer Ania Nalecka and published by Dienacht.

His photographs have won prizes (Gomma Grant 2019, Inside Art Prize 2019, Hasselblad Grand Prix 2018, Max Spreafico Prize 2019 among others) and have been exhibited in various museums and galleries such as: La Biennale di Architettura, MACRO/Contemporary art Museum of Rome, MADRE/Contemporary art museum of Naples, Villa Pignatelli/Museum Pole of Campania, Ex-Mattatoio/Museum pole of Lazio, La Galleria del Cembalo, S.S.M.A.V.E. ARCOS/Contemporary art museum of Benevento, FIAF, Biennale De La Photographie D'Aubagne, various festivals in Italy, Turkey, Germany and Portugal.