A Home Made by Drawing
I believe it is deeply significant to bring my project, A Home Made by Drawing, to Italy at this particular moment — a time when political forces across the spectrum increasingly reject migration and refugees, and the rhetoric of nationalism gains alarming ground across Europe.
At its heart, A Home Made by Drawing is an art project about mobility, connection, travel, and the fragile poetry of temporary dwelling. It unfolds as a visual metaphor for alternative ways of imagining home — ways that are porous, nomadic, and negotiable. Through the exploration of non-static and fluid modes of inhabiting space, it invites us to reconsider identity and belonging, not as fixed coordinates, but as flowing, diasporic experiences.
In tracing these shifting lines of movement and memory, the project evokes an alternative relationship between human beings and their environments — one built on adaptation, exchange, and the acceptance of impermanence.
Despite the resurgence of nationalist rhetoric, despite the dark echoes of walls and borders proclaimed by figures like Trump, I remain steadfast in my belief that the future belongs to us, the global citizens —
to those whose loves, lives, jobs, memories, fortunes, misfortunes, desires, and pains weave across the world like an intricate, living drawing of red lines.
A drawing that stretches and spreads across the planet, dissolving boundaries and exposing the smallness of ideologies that seek to divide. A future where national borders and exclusionary myths will seem like the nightmares of a barbaric and distant past.
Thanks to IoDeposito Npo, and particularly to its coordinator and curator Chiara Isadora Artico, and to all the IoDeposito team Magda Dokowska, Terxan Ismayilzade and Alice Rubbini
Fotos by FotoPigi Foto
The project in Treviso is hosted by and organised in partnership with IoDeposito and supported by the i-Portunus pilot project funded by the #creativeeurope Programme of the European Union.