Speyers, Viarigi, Italy (2025 - Artist in residence)
Project in development
It is quite a coincidence that I end up in Viarigi together with artists, painters and photographers. The nice people are inspiring and certainly also the charming place, the abandoned houses. The lives once lived here, remembered or forgotten.
The wardrobes, clogs, pumps, tablecloths, picture frames tell a silent story. The hip lady in front of her 70s Hollywood mirror, the stately banker's wife, the mother who cared - for children and the elderly at the table -, the mistress who remained silent, the farmer's wife with mud on her hem, the craftswoman weaving and stitching. The lover who never returned from the tower and Domenica Lana, the enigmatic muse who once stirred Viarigi.
In Viarigi, the idea was born to weave tangible traces of the past into something new - an object that carries memory. The scent of secret. A tribute to the women who lived, worked, loved, disappeared and were sometimes forgotten here. A women’s boot, made from found fragments, as a metaphor for the path they walked.