Maria Savarese from Naples

Your new daily ritual ...
I wake up early in the morning and follow my instructor's Pilates lessons for about an hour, which continues through Skype. Then I start living my space: for example, I have started to dedicate myself to many things that have been pending for about a year in my new home, that is since I moved here; I can spend more time with my son, we talk a lot, let's study some subjects together, obviously the literary and artistic ones. I dedicate the afternoon to my work, the projects I'm working on, to those I would like to undertake in the coming years. The setting of these new days is making me relate in a different way, more aware, with everyday space: Deleuze wrote that the body it is the space of a becoming, and every moment, this space is transformed and becomes a coexistence of objects, of situations and things that are co-determined and constitute the space itself. The concatenation of things - in this space - is precisely a person, an individual. It seems to me a current reflection worthy of being deepened in this moment of "suspension".

With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
The kitchen and my study corner, my desk. I resumed writing with more tranquility, which until now, due to the hectic daily pace, I was often able to do it in trouble and with the tight deadlines dictated by the various exhibition deadlines.

We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
Spending a lot of time indoors allowed me, note, to rediscover the pleasure of writing, like when I was at university, during the PhD. I am working on two books: the first monograph dedicated to Donatella Spaziani and articulated between the different linguistic media practiced by the artist, which will accompany his site-specific exhibition in Campania scheduled for May, but which will inevitably be postponed and implemented as soon as current conditions permit; the second is, Finally, the publication of my PhD thesis in the history of collecting, that thanks to this forced domestic stay is finally ready. The release of both volumes is scheduled for autumn and will be published by Paparo Editions, historic Neapolitan publishing house of art books.

What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
I miss freedom so much: to meet my friends, I want to see them again, to embrace them again; of travelling, to return to Milan, city ​​to which an intense and distant relationship binds me and where I work a lot; to go to the studio of the artists I have been collaborating with for years and get to know their new projects; to be able to walk with my son, to go to the cinema, to theater, to see the exhibitions in museums and galleries, I miss the outside, the outside, stay close to the sea, practically, all those things that marked the rhythm of my days, simple things, at that time ordinary, but now more than ever exceptional and essential.

Maria Savarese (1971) lives and works in Naples. PhD in History of Art, he worked as a programmer and director in RAI Educational, at the RAI Production Center in Naples, in the field of art-related productions. She devoted herself to cataloging and research activities at the Federico II University of Naples, the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, and several Neapolitan Superintendencies. He curates contemporary culture projects, collaborated with the Campania Region, with the Municipality of Naples, with the Napoli Teatro Festival, with GAMM Giunti Exhibitions and Museums of Florence, with Fratelli Alinari. Foundation for the History of Photography in Florence, with the Sozzani Foundation of Milan; with institutional museums such as the PAN| Palace of the Arts Naples; the Mother Museum of Naples; the National Archaeological Museum of Naples; the Macro of Rome; the Rice Museum of Palermo; the Pio Monte delle Misericordia in Naples; the Royal Palace Naples; with Villa Pignatelli - House of Photography; with Camera Italian Center for Photography in Turin. Between 2011 and the 2012 it was on behalf of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples, coordinator of the cultural and exhibition activities of the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti in Naples and other municipal offices. She was the artistic director of Sistema Irpinia for Contemporary Culture, cultural project promoted and supported by the Campania Region. The last exhibition he curated was, in autumn 2019, Giovanni Gastel's first solo show in Naples, at the Al Blu di Prussia gallery, exhibition space with which he has been collaborating for years.