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Temporary Storage

Container Media Open Call

Container Media Platform   /   Deadline: 03/15/26

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Open call for submissions for an online publication on the Container Media website and/or a site-specific exhibition in a Catholic church.

The online exhibition Temporary Storage brings together photo-based works that explore and thematize duration through the very process of their creation and viewing. The selected projects approach time not as a background condition, but as their primary material. Temporal extension, processes, and the conditions of emergence become the content of the works themselves.

At its most fundamental technical level, photography is inseparable from duration: every image is the result of exposure, the registration of light over time. In this sense, each photograph functions as a form of temporary storage — of light, presence, and an event that has already passed.

In the context of an online exhibition, images appear without the stability of physical display. Screen-based viewing introduces its own temporality: scrolling, loading, fragmentation, and interrupted attention. Temporary Storage understands the image not as a finished form, but as a temporary state. What is presented here is not permanence, but the capacity of images to hold time — to preserve processes, delays, and transformations, remaining open to future reactivation and reinterpretation.

Details on the website:
containermedia.org

Our Instagram:
@containermedia

Fees

0.0

Eligibility

We welcome:

•photographic works
•photo-based projects and hybrid practices
•both individual images and series
•works that engage duration conceptually, technically, or processually

Requirements

JPG format only (1500–3000 pixels on the longer side)
Artist statement, including title, year, and medium (text document or PDF)
Bio and CV (text document or PDF)
Website and/or social media

Considerations

Participation is free of charge.

Files may be attached directly to the email or sent via WeTransfer or a cloud service.

Email: hi.container.media@gmail.com

W: https://containermedia.org/open-call-temporary-storage
E: hi.container.media@gmail.com