As they are

Penelope Siria Meneghetti's project

Academic year

2025 - 2026

This project looks with curiosity and empathy at daily life inside a residential home for people with psychiatric disorders. How are days spent? What does it mean to live with one’s condition? How does one inhabit a space shared with people not chosen? Does life here breed boredom, or moments of pleasure?

Through the experience of Cinzia, a fifty seven year old passionate about art and writing, the work seeks to give voice to individuals often marginalized or misunderstood, prompting reflection on mental health. The visual story combines observational photography, staged scenes shaped by impressions and emotions, excerpts from Cinzia’s texts, and some of her drawings.
 

The Searchlights is the second chapter of Ti vorrei dire, a three-year project developed in collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia - Torino, a part of Intesa Sanpaolo. The projects map out the urgencies of our time through the perspective of a new generation. Ecological and climate crises, dynamics of power and representation, identity, mental health, precarity, memory and narratives of the present run through the works, shaping a collective account that restores complexity to what is too often reduced to a label.

Curated by:
Carlotta Cattaneo, Daria Scolamacchia, Giulia Ticozzi
With teaching support from:
Luis Aniceto, Francesca Cirilli, Fabio Barile, Diego Fontana, Alessandra Foschi, Simona Taddeucci, Jacopo Loiodice, Céline Volonterio