A Place to Live
The economic, environmental, political and global crisis has enormous repercussions on the topic of housing. Housing policies need to be rethought. Homelessness is increasingly linked to the crisis we are experiencing. Since I have been to Portland, in Oregon, I haven’t stopped thinking about what not having a home means.
Having a place to live, a house, and our connection to a place, or to more than a place, is fundamental to develop our lives. Every artwork is personal and is about our experience, our existence and our being in this world. This concerns my fears of losing stability and support and to end up in a street. I tried to establish a relationship with the homeless community in Portland, Oregon and the portraits are of some of the people I succeeded to have a relationship with, even if briefly. They are appearances, like the tents, they come and go, with their burden of memories and sufferance.
The weekly campsite report (Dec. 13-19, 2021) of the Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program is a metaphor of our human condition, we are not permanent. And we could find ourselves very easily houseless, especially now as we are all experiencing a global crisis.
Exhibition
21 September - 30 November 2023
Via F. Pelli 13 - First Floor - Lugano - Switzerland
