[For as long as necessary – 2020]
“How many days do we have to stay at home, Mum?” This was the most frequent question asked by my five-year-old daughter. And every time I answered: “I giorni necessari” (“for as long as necessary”). It took fifty-six days to manage the Covid_19 pandemic; in Italy more than thirty-three thousand people died and at the end of the year the count had risen to more than seventy thousand.
From 10 March to 4 May I narrated everything that happened in my personal sphere. My view is private, domestic, from a window, from the garden of the house. It is a project that looks at emotions, at everyday stories, at human relationships, because when we can’t look out, we go in search of what happens inside ourselves. It is a project that interprets nostalgia, expectations, fear, boredom, lack, loneliness, escape, sacrifice, death, stasis, love for one another. Today we are dealing with an inevitable freezing of demonstrations of affection; perhaps this is the greatest lack, contact.