Untitled_Survey of a Domestic Space is a project that emerged during the period of isolation due to the pandemic, a time when reflecting on the question of "habitation" became more of a response to events than a personal choice. The project, in fact, originated from the total impossibility of accessing the materials for my artistic practice. The studio, the first room designed, went from being a usual place of work to becoming both the subject and the material of the artwork. The gaze directed at the studio-atelier then shifted radically to the apartment of which the studio is a part.
During the creation of the drawings, only some of which were made during the lockdown, the practice of re-drawing spaces took on a dual and opposing significance: on the one hand, the bird's-eye perspective in the drawings signified a desire for escape, formalized in the view from the outside; on the other hand, in order to complete the drawings, I had to remain inside the apartment to measure and represent it. The measurement of the spaces thus became the reason for an additional confinement.
Representing the spaces, in order to recognize and name them, became an act of interpreting the lived experience. The issue of "habiting" — inhabiting the zone, according to Lyotard's proposal — characterized a line of thought in the 1990s that linked habitation to cohabitation, the idea of hospitality, the meeting of cultures, and otherness in a society in constant flux. Today, however, the spotlight on the private sphere, to which we have all had to return, and particularly on the space of privacy made performative by endless Skype calls and remote working, has forced me to define, with the linguistic tools I usually use, not so much the space of hospitality where one meets the "other," but rather the existential domestic space as a necessary space for oneself. The home is the place where existential trajectories overlap.
Observing the domestic space with meticulous attention has, over the past few months, taken on the characteristics of a constant practice of construction and design. By assuming the responsibility of caring for the place where I live, the daily practice of drawing the domestic space and its furnishings has become an act of care for the space in which each person develops and negotiates relationships with both the inside and the outside, and therefore, a care for the self.

The artist's book, titled in the shape of a key with the floor plan of the apartment it describes, is a reflection of the practice of surveying forms and spaces carried out during the 2020 pandemic through the project Untitled: Survey of a Domestic Space. The work functions as a notebook of notes on space and the very concept of residence: the images of the 3D graphic reconstructions of the environments are interspersed with fragments from Manuel de l’habitation, taken from Vers une architecture, a collection of essays by the French architect Le Corbusier, which were originally published in the journal L’Esprit Nouveau. These fragments contain the author’s theories on new languages and forms in modern architecture.

Project exhibited in:

Senza titolo, rilevazione di uno spazio domestico, Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin, 2022
Collezione (in) Particolare, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone, 2021