“What does it mean to inhabit a room? To inhabit a place, does it mean to take possession of it? What does it mean to take possession of a place? When does a place truly become yours? When you’ve soaked three pairs of socks in a pink plastic basin? When you’ve heated up some spaghetti on a camping stove? When you’ve used all the mismatched hangers in the closet? When you’ve pinned an old postcard of Carpaccio’s The Dream of St. Ursula to the wall? When you’ve experienced the torments of waiting, or the exhilarations of passion, or the agony of a toothache? When you’ve hung curtains to your liking at the windows, papered the walls, and polished the parquet floors?”
From: Species of Spaces - Georges Perec, 1989
The space we inhabit during the first twenty years of our lives is made of bricks, experiences, and people. Every object tied to our lives somehow becomes part of our broader story, stirring our hippocampus to awaken our internal memory, an interpretation of memories we might otherwise forget. How many objects and stories must we carry on our shoulders when moving to a new place, in order to redefine it as home?
A thought returns to me when I think of the day I said goodbye to my friends and family and left, far from what I once called home: how many things did I have to rearrange in space to redesign a room as a new home? The objects, the posters, the tickets, and the photos, all these things inhabited my room for years, reminding me of where I come from but also of where I have been.
A concept of “familiar” space that, over time, takes things and transforms into something new—an idea inextricably tied to what we pack in boxes when we move from one place to another. Stories made of farewells and returns, where unknowingly, the luggage holds the milestones of our journey.
An exploration of the spaces we live in from day to day, where we’ve laid our wallpaper made of dreams, memories, and useless objects. After all, we are all defined by what we carry in our pockets.
Urbino, 2024
Photography
Lorenzo Urgesi
Supervisor
Leonardo Sonnoli
Paola De Pietri
“What does it mean to inhabit a room? To inhabit a place, does it mean to take possession of it? What does it mean to take possession of a place? When does a place truly become yours? When you’ve soaked three pairs of socks in a pink plastic basin? When you’ve heated up some spaghetti on a camping stove? When you’ve used all the mismatched hangers in the closet? When you’ve pinned an old postcard of Carpaccio’s The Dream of St. Ursula to the wall? When you’ve experienced the torments of waiting, or the exhilarations of passion, or the agony of a toothache? When you’ve hung curtains to your liking at the windows, papered the walls, and polished the parquet floors?”
From: Species of Spaces - Georges Perec, 1989
The space we inhabit during the first twenty years of our lives is made of bricks, experiences, and people. Every object tied to our lives somehow becomes part of our broader story, stirring our hippocampus to awaken our internal memory, an interpretation of memories we might otherwise forget. How many objects and stories must we carry on our shoulders when moving to a new place, in order to redefine it as home?
A thought returns to me when I think of the day I said goodbye to my friends and family and left, far from what I once called home: how many things did I have to rearrange in space to redesign a room as a new home? The objects, the posters, the tickets, and the photos, all these things inhabited my room for years, reminding me of where I come from but also of where I have been.
A concept of “familiar” space that, over time, takes things and transforms into something new—an idea inextricably tied to what we pack in boxes when we move from one place to another. Stories made of farewells and returns, where unknowingly, the luggage holds the milestones of our journey.
An exploration of the spaces we live in from day to day, where we’ve laid our wallpaper made of dreams, memories, and useless objects. After all, we are all defined by what we carry in our pockets.
Urbino, 2024
Photography
Lorenzo Urgesi
Supervisor
Leonardo Sonnoli
Paola De Pietri