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Exhibition:
'Non c'è due senza tre'

Photographs by
Natela Grigalashvili, Francesco Giusti, Peter Holliday

February, 2026

The exhibition "Non c’è due senza tre" ("Things Come in Threes") opens at Lab27 in Treviso. The show originates from an investigation into portraiture and, more broadly, into figurative representation as a pretext for narrating places. From the title onward, attention is drawn to the image as a relational device: between individual and space, between body and territory, between memory and the present. This awareness is rooted in the history of Western visual arts, where figuration introduced a new way of representing the world—more realistic, more corporeal, more emotional, and more closely tied to the viewer’s experience. In the works on display by Natela Grigalashvili, Francesco Giusti, and Peter Holliday, place is never a mere backdrop; rather, it takes shape through what faces, gestures, postures, memories, and even absence evoke.

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Exhibition:
'Non c'è due senza tre'

Photographs by
Natela Grigalashvili, Francesco Giusti, Peter Holliday

February, 2026

The exhibition "Non c’è due senza tre" ("Things Come in Threes") opens at Lab27 in Treviso. The show originates from an investigation into portraiture and, more broadly, into figurative representation as a pretext for narrating places. From the title onward, attention is drawn to the image as a relational device: between individual and space, between body and territory, between memory and the present. This awareness is rooted in the history of Western visual arts, where figuration introduced a new way of representing the world—more realistic, more corporeal, more emotional, and more closely tied to the viewer’s experience. In the works on display by Natela Grigalashvili, Francesco Giusti, and Peter Holliday, place is never a mere backdrop; rather, it takes shape through what faces, gestures, postures, memories, and even absence evoke.

lab27.it

Steve Bisson

Steve Bisson is an educator, curator, and writer.
He is the Chair of Photography at the Paris College of Art and co-founder of the international program Blurring the Lines, which fosters intra-academic dialogue and recognizes outstanding graduate work in photography and the visual arts. He is also the founder of the Urbanautica Institute, an online visual anthropology journal that has become a key reference for scholars and photography enthusiasts.
Bisson serves as Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Penisola Edizioni and as Art Director of Lab27, a cultural center that advocates for issues at the intersection of image-making, photography, and society.
Over the past two decades, Steve Bisson has curated more than a hundred events—including exhibitions and festivals—and authored numerous essays and publications. He has collaborated with cultural and educational institutions worldwide and continuously questions the role of images in society.

 

• Coaching and Portfolio Review

Go to Coaching and Portfolio Review page

 

• Contacts

Facebook / Instagram / info@stevebisson.com

• Teaching
In 2018, Steve Bisson joined Paris College of Art as adjunct faculty and has since then taught in different courses in the Masters of Art (MA) / Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography and Image Making, Masters of Art (MA) in Fashion Film & Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography. In 2022 he was appointed Chair of  Photography Department, and since then directing activities.

Steve Bisson has been delivering lectures, mentoring, and collaborating extensively with leading cultural and educational institutions around the world for the past 15 years and leaning to the understanding of the cultural and social dynamics associated with photography. In 2016, in collaboration with Klaus Fruchtnis, he co-founded Blurring the Lines, an academic network that fosters talent and dialogue in the visual realm.

• Curator
Steve Bisson has curated a wide range of initiatives, including hundreds of exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and events, while exploring contemporary social and cultural themes, as well as civic participatory approaches.

Since 2020, he has been the Art Director of Lab27, a cultural centre in Italy, where he advocates for visual literacy through shows, talks and educational partnership with local schools.

• Publications
Steve Bisson is the chief-editor of  'Urbanautica Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes', an international editorial platform focused on contemporary photography with a strong emphasis on themes related to visual anthropology, urbanism, and social sciences.

In 2017, he founded the publishing house Penisola Edizioni and sought to enhance humanistic research in art bookmaking.

Bisson also contributed to countless texts, books, studies, magazines, juries.

• Education
Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura – IUAV of Venice, Italy (2002), and MBA from Kansas University, USA (2004).

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Design by Roberto Vito D'Amico 

Photo by Ali Ghorbani Moghaddam

Steve Bisson

Steve Bisson is an educator, curator, and writer.
He is the Chair of Photography at the Paris College of Art and co-founder of the international program Blurring the Lines, which fosters intra-academic dialogue and recognizes outstanding graduate work in photography and the visual arts. He is also the founder of the Urbanautica Institute, an online visual anthropology journal that has become a key reference for scholars and photography enthusiasts.
Bisson serves as Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Penisola Edizioni and as Art Director of Lab27, a cultural center that advocates for issues at the intersection of image-making, photography, and society.
Over the past two decades, Steve Bisson has curated more than a hundred events—including exhibitions and festivals—and authored numerous essays and publications. He has collaborated with cultural and educational institutions worldwide and continuously questions the role of images in society.

 

• Coaching and Portfolio Review

Go to Coaching and Portfolio Review page

 

• Contacts

Facebook / Instagram / info@stevebisson.com

• Teaching
In 2018, Steve Bisson joined Paris College of Art as adjunct faculty and has since then taught in different courses in the Masters of Art (MA) / Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography and Image Making, Masters of Art (MA) in Fashion Film & Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography. In 2022 he was appointed Chair of  Photography Department, and since then directing activities.

Steve Bisson has been delivering lectures, mentoring, and collaborating extensively with leading cultural and educational institutions around the world for the past 15 years and leaning to the understanding of the cultural and social dynamics associated with photography. In 2016, in collaboration with Klaus Fruchtnis, he co-founded Blurring the Lines, an academic network that fosters talent and dialogue in the visual realm.

• Curator
Steve Bisson has curated a wide range of initiatives, including hundreds of exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and events, while exploring contemporary social and cultural themes, as well as civic participatory approaches.

Since 2020, he has been the Art Director of Lab27, a cultural centre in Italy, where he advocates for visual literacy through shows, talks and educational partnership with local schools.

• Publications
Steve Bisson is the chief-editor of  'Urbanautica Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes', an international editorial platform focused on contemporary photography with a strong emphasis on themes related to visual anthropology, urbanism, and social sciences.

In 2017, he founded the publishing house Penisola Edizioni and sought to enhance humanistic research in art bookmaking.

Bisson also contributed to countless texts, books, studies, magazines, juries.

• Education
Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura – IUAV of Venice, Italy (2002), and MBA from Kansas University, USA (2004).

—
Design by Roberto Vito D'Amico 

Photo by Ali Ghorbani Moghaddam

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