Through this project, GRIP aims to explore the various dimensions of inequality by engaging with visual artists to reflect and illustrate different perceptions, representations, and visualizations of inequality in specific contexts.
In 2021 GRIP launched the Imaging Inequality project as a worldwide art contest, aiming to explore various dimensions of inequality by engaging with visual artists to reflect and illustrate different perceptions, representations, and visualizations of inequality.
As the project has been widely successful, we have decided to extend the “Imaging Inequality” project by inviting new artists to join its digital exhibition. We are happy to announce an Open Call for visual artists to engage in the project and contribute to illuminating various dimensions of inequality in specific contexts. We welcome submissions of diverse visual material attending to different dimensions of inequality. Submitted and accepted work will be featured on GRIP’s digital exhibition.
Please fill out this form to submit your Imaging Inequality contribution.
Background
Inequality, often perceived narrowly as economic differences and reduced to notions of poverty, has multiple dimensions and assumes many faces. It can entail not only differences between levels of wealth, but it can also include variances between the social status of groups; imbalances in access to education, health, justice; unequal capacity for individuals and groups to influence political decision-making processes; discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, race and religion; unevenness in access to natural resources and benefits from their exploitation; exposure to pollution and risks; as well as differences in access and contribution to types of knowledge.
GRIP, being an interdisciplinary and experimental research programme, examines the different understandings of inequality in various contexts and works to illuminate its many forms and shapes. The aim of the Imaging Inequality project is thus to explore inequality through visual materials.