On November 1, 2025, on the occasion of Artissima 32nd edition, the Tosetti Value Photography Award has been assigned to Alterazioni video.
Artissima reaffirms its market vitality and its central role as an international observatory. The thirty-second edition — the fourth directed by Luigi Fassi — concluded with an attendance of 34,500 visitors over four open days (the first reserved for professionals) and confirmed the fair’s position within the international contemporary art scene, consolidating a successful model that breathes with the city.
In this climate of great enthusiasm and concreteness, the sixth edition of the Tosetti Value Photography Award took place. The prize was born from the desire to explore the relationship between art and economics and to expand the perspective through which we view reality. The jury — composed of Chiara Agradi, curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain; Lucrezia Cippitelli, curator of the contemporary art program at Kunst Meran, Merano Arte; and Walter Guadagnini, director of CAMERA – the Italian Center for Photography, Turin — selected Alterazioni Video, a collective presented by the Guido Costa Projects gallery in Turin, as the 2025 winner.
Alterazioni Video investigates the relationship between images, power, communication devices, and global geopolitical issues. Since the early 2000s, the collective has developed a distinctive artistic practice centered on recurring themes that analyze network cultures and their hegemonic functions in shaping today’s political culture. Emerging from a generation that grew up embracing the subversive and transformative potential of the early internet, over the years Alterazioni Video has built a discourse deeply aware of the disruption of the positivist political premises that underpinned the activism of the 1990s.
We are both donkeys is part of the recent series Dead writers smell like forgotten piss, and it powerfully, profoundly, and aptly explores the relationship between image and reality through traditional photography, its materialization via printing, its transformation through digital acquisition, and further elaboration using Artificial Intelligence. Confronted with this complex creative process, the work asks viewers: what is reality? How can we distinguish it from its construction through digital media? In what ways are images generated by networks connected to the world around us? How do they build it — crafting truths and credible fictions? Alterazioni Video’s work does not provide an answer to these questions but invites deeper reflection on contemporary issues.
The Tosetti Value Photography Award is closely linked to Prospettive. L’economia delle immagini, a platform dedicated to contemporary photography founded in 2014 and curated by Tosetti Value for Art, with the aim of fostering debates and reflections on our globalized world in synergy with the macroeconomic research of the Family Office.
The winning artist, in addition to receiving a cash prize, will have the opportunity to develop a project in collaboration with Tosetti Value. As usual, a work by the winning artist will be acquired for the Family Office’s Corporate Collection. Previous awardees include: Raed Yassin, presented by Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery, Dubai (first edition); Fatma Bucak, presented by Peola Simondi Gallery, Turin (second edition); Oroma Elewa, presented by In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc Gallery, Paris (third edition); Kiluanji Kia Henda, presented by Fonti Gallery, Naples (fourth edition); and Rossella Biscotti, presented by mor charpentier Gallery, Paris (fifth edition).
Photo courtesy: © Perottino-Piva-Castellano-Bergadano / Artissima 2025
