The exhibition features the artworks of the first prize winners and the artist residencies of the Young Artists, under 35 and Well-known Artists, over 35 categories. The winner of the first prize for Young Artists is Giuseppe Gallace who won the title thanks to the artwork “The Walk” from 2024. In the Well-known Artists category, Angelo Farina was awarded the work “A Moment Before” from 2022. On display, in addition to the canvases of the first prize winners, there are artworks created during the artist residencies, assigned by the jury composed of Nicoletta Candiani, owner and curator of SAC, Elisabetta Roncati and Marta Mezynska. Winners of the artist residencies in the Young Artists category are Asya Magnaterra and Yirui Fang, and in the Well-known Artists category Atefeh Khas and Sanda Skujina.

The Luigi Candiani Prize was established in 2022 in memory of the great-grandfather of the owner and curator of SAC, who had established a textile factory in 1938 where the contemporary art space stands.

For its second edition, the Prize set the theme of artistic development as “The inner journey”, that is:

There is A constellation in which the whole history of the world converges in a point: humankind. The past, the present  and the future merge in order to narrate a universe that is running faster and faster, a temporality characterized by the desire of reaching something different from what we already own. In which direction will the iperproductivity that catches us lead us to? Can we wake up from this phantasmagoria? Nowadays we are irremediably called back to a process of reconstruction of the fragmentation we live in.
A time in which our gaze on the world becames undone from the sharp and dizzying feeling of abandon of our life commodification and it addresses to the inner reality that proceeds respecting its own timing. Every moment is the time of what is happening right now and this time concerns an inexorable and rapid revolution that is going to make us the id that we have always been for the very first time.