The 2021 Prize, eighth year: DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION - Submitted works

NOT FOR US
This graphic created on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities wants to denounce all those difficult situations that disabled people face daily in dealing with technology.
A representation of what some people find in front of their eyes when they try to appro...

THE FACE IN THE CLOUDS
Technology can be the best ally for people with disabilities. Recently, with the arrival of the pandemic and the various lockdowns, numerous supports have been developed 
bio-technologies capable of improving, accompanying and facilitating a long list of operations that wou...

ECDISI
Summer has ended
New beginnings are at the horizon 
A fresh new life 
Free of the torment 
My soul is no longer in jail
I’m free
Flying like a bird
White and green
Are the colours of rebirth
White as purity of the soul
Green as the Mother Nature
That gives us birth
I’m born
Once...

SHORT CIRCUIT
‘Short Circuit’ was created with my experience of Epilepsy in mind. As a child the condition was hard to comprehend and my doctor compared the brain to a circuit board and when it short circuited, it created a seizure to occur. This imagery inspired this photograph. The electrical wir...

HOW TO MAKE RAINBOWS.
 
My conception of this painting has a little bit to do with me. Physically, I almost went blind in my left eye when I was a kid. When I was 19 years old, I had an myopia operation , during which I literally lost sight for a few seconds, so I was close to becoming a disable...

PETIT MAL
The work entitled Petit mal was created in 2020; it is a pencil and collage drawing, 33x48 cm. The work was born from the idea of ​​combining the theme of the Eleanor Worthington Prize with a personal moment in which the artist suffered, at an early age, from a mild epilepsy called, preci...

LIFE in LIGHT BLUE
 It’s about the infinity, place of wander and dreams, without barriers nor limits. It is about the sea that can embrace, and bring everything to the surface. The iconic Coca-Cola bottle is vehicle for the narrative rhythm. It heads towards the wheelchair which has become a light...

FATHER
‘Father' (oil, aluminium panel, 28x28cm) painted 1 year after my father’s death of pancreas tumor. His last two years he became befriended with Jan, ‘Worthington’ patient. Both, nearing the end of their live were not able to profit as before from innovative technologies. For them performing ...

SOCIAL CARD GAME
 
 The goal of my project is to show the Social in a different way, from a playful point of view. I made a cards game based on Social’s rules. From my point of view this allows you to understand in a simple way, through a game, the Social’s word. It belongs to everyone’s life.

SCRIPTA VOLANT/COMMUNICATION FROM ISOLATION, ISOLATION COMMUNICATION
The installation takes its cue from the former San Benedetto asylum in Pesaro, to deal with the theme of mental disability and communication across barriers, ages and forms, from paper to telematics. In the last years of the 19th...

MULTISENSORY LABEL
The concept etichetta multisensoriale is an Inclusive Design project, wich is a project that stems from the desire to design starting from the limits and obstacles that prevent people with disabilities from using some of characteristics of the product itself.
In this case, the c...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Man develops technology and he creates a connexion with it to support himself.

Travma/nous 
The drawing shows the enlargment of my right hand's skin, which is the strument that I use to draw.
In this veil of Maya there's an open wound: inside it there's a galaxy, which represents my inner world. The wound refers to the surgical operation that allowed me to hear and that gav...

BROOM

The white that invades and envelops the polyptych gives the work a metaphysical, primordial light that allows us to perceive things in their authenticity, objectivity

 It is a negation of the narrative, reality is free from any subjectivism, accompanied by a veil of drama, the work is pu...

THE FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE
The book for the blind is an unapproachable tool if it were not for the invention of the audiobook.
I made a white leather book, a symbol of purity, characterized by an ancient binding on 3 nerves to fully express its nature and its history.
From its body an explosion ...

THIS. WILL. PAIN.
 
A first-hand experience of the disability Psoriatic Arthritis illustrates how sufferers often feel detached from society.
 
Marrying the hand-built skills of sculpture with digital technology, the chair is photographed in an urban setting, then in post-production digitally ma...

DUE TO... 
The phrase "Due to ..." is used in more solemn written language, meaning "caused by" and "due to." This phrase is also the most commonly seen phrase in the emails I received during the epidemic of 2020. The use of new coronal pneumonia in 2020 caused the delay or cancellation of many org...

EDGES
Welcome, here is a work called Edges.
This is one metre length, two metre height painting. Although it’s  quite big, It's very light, because the material of this painting is rice paper. 
On this Chinese rice paper, there are many ink patterns: some are in  deep ink, very deep, but not b...