Waiting room

Micol Naretti'project

Academic year

2025 - 2026

In recent years, more young adults have continued living with their parents: ISTAT reports that over 67% of those aged 18 to 34 remain at home. Even those with jobs often cannot afford rent due to low wages, precarious employment, and rising costs. This condition shapes psychological life: frustration, stagnation, a sense of suspended time. The bedroom - once a space of growth and independence - becomes saturated with waiting, functioning as a room where autonomy is indefinitely postponed. 

 

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