La Pista
02/02/2026
Video byFrédérique Gélinas
Project by La Escuela Nunca y los Otros Futuros
In collaboration with Rossella Altobelli, Camillo Boano, Manuel Grimaldi, Frédérique Gélinas, Stefano Mastromarino, Richard Lee Peragine, Antonio Stopani
Within the project “Inappropriable. Archiving fugitive infrastructures across frontier ecologies”
Funded by“Reframing arrival: Transnational perspectives on perceptions, governance and practices - REFRAME” (Development Planning Unit UCL - UK AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council) and “Al di là del campo. Indagare opacità, forme e visioni del superamento come logica territoriale - CAMP-FORMS” (Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio - DIST, Politecnico di Torino, Università degli Studi di Torino)
Frédérique Gélinas is a photographer and architect from Quebec, Canada and based in Turin, Italy. Since childhood, photography has been her way of observing the world and a means of communication she developed autodidactically over the years. In the last two years, she decided to participate in photography workshops to further develop her vision and photographic culture. She then began working on her first photodocumentary project about mezcal production in Mexico. The project received first place in the Top News category of the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, was shortlisted at the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Contest and the Sarajevo Photo Festival, and was recognized as a finalist for the POY Environmental Vision Award. She also attended the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXVII. Influenced by her background in architecture, her work explores the formation of unique spaces, the ways humans inhabit sensitive territories and realities, and the contrasted imaginaries of natural and built environments. Her photography is oriented toward sensitive human interactions, socio-cultural issues, and authenticity.
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Author: Frédérique Gélinas
Period: May 2025
Place: Borgo Mezzanone
Project: Camp Form(s); REFRAME.
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Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.