publications
In 2022, alongside its participatory artistic actions and workshops, Correspondence launched a series of artistic publications centered on the theme of dwelling.
These publications serve both as a paper-based space and a platform for dialogue, exploring “correspondence” as a founding principle and aiming to illuminate the connections between human habitation and the spaces that host it.
Corrispondenze has published:
Semi, 2022
Limite, 2022
Archive (vol. A-B-C-D-E), 2024
Semi
Semi (Seeds) is the inaugural publication from Corrispondenze. Its title embodies the metaphorical seeds interwoven within the texts, designed to take root as readers engage with them. These seeds are set to sprout into fresh ideas through the interplay of stimuli and reflections.
Semi explores the Turin region by presenting projects that examine space from multiple perspectives—artistic, anthropological, social, urban, and naturalistic.
Contributions:
Erbario Urbano
by Simone Scardino, introduction by Andrea Lerda
Conversazione con Progetto RESCUE!
(interview)
«Making a World»
Esplorare la compresenza sul territorio della Dora
by Roxana Salahoru
Cosa vuol dire per te abitare uno spazio?
by Paola Boscaini and Cristina Materassi
April 2022, Turin
Independent art publication
Limite
Limite gathers contributions that explore the experience of inhabiting permeable and contradictory borders, envisioning radical spaces of possibility.
The border, as a concept of limit, takes on relational qualities that challenge the very notion of a boundary. Through images, reflections, and narratives, the pieces compiled in Limite shed light on the complexities and divisions of our time, aiming to envision and create space for alternative worlds.
The contributions:
500 mt around me
by Chiara Pavolucci
Quando torno a casa / Ho coltivato un vuoto e l’ho riempito di senso
by Ettore Morandi
Strada Provinciale
by Alessandra Baldon
Sei comoda?
by Matilda Elia
Mestiza
by Tessa Viganò
Pròtendere
by Fabio Cipolla
Attraversa il confine
by Zoya Shokoohi
Viavai
by Caos
Metalli pesanti
by Vittorio Zampinetti, Alba Melcolella, Fernanda Torre
Costruire sorte
by Davide Robaldo
Metalik
by Gabriele Provenzano
photographs by Viv Li
Mondi Sottili
by Stefania Balocco
Forme uniche
by Arianna Scubla
Tarpino
by Elisa Pietracito and Benedetta Chiari
Abitare
by Marta Caproni
L.U.O.G.O.
by Mattia Varini and Federico Ferrari
Nonlieu
by Letizia Monti
Son(n)o in lotta
by Ilvis Punto
Almost
by Valeria Pierini
Un’impresa esistenziale: oltre i confini dell’informazione
by Floriana Savino
Sta di casa qui. Lotte e nuovi immaginari per città future
by Alessandra Baldon
Corpi e spazi urbani: il 104 di Parigi e una nuova narrazione comunitaria
by Laura Massaroli
Abitare l’isola
by Alberto Poliseri
Sul bordo del cerchio I corpi opachi ai margini dei confini sociali
by Tessa Viganò
Il venditore di sogni e Confine
by Mathieu Porcellana
falia: l’arte ai confini*
by Tessa Viganò
Passaggio in Polonia
interview with Alba Mercolella and Fernanda Torre
Conversazione con Casa Walser
with Giovanni Bovolin, Federico Zamboni, and Brenno Franceschi
December 2022, Turin
Independent artistic publication
Proofreader: Alessandra Baldon
Archive
Archive aims to explore the actions of researching, collecting, and archiving in our time, and how these activities are interconnected with the way we perceive and represent the spaces we inhabit. By amalgamating personal research, collective projects, and spatial investigations, this publication encourages the exploration of intimate and personal perspectives, serving as a starting point for examining pressing issues of our time.
If we regard archiving as the daily activity of preserving fragments of personal and collective memory, our homes and daily actions can be seen as the filing cabinets of our society. The landscape and its morphological structure can be interpreted as an archive of the transformation of nature into history, with marginal places as spaces to be rediscovered and reimagined.
Archive is being developed in five parts throughout 2024. The first four booklets present the editorial transposition of four artistic projects, realized through a process of collaboration between the editors and the participants. The fifth volume offers a collection of texts analyzing the theme from various perspectives, alongside a creative reinterpretation of these insights by a group of students.
vol. A
Off Your Shoes
by Belhassen Handous, Joanna Pianka, Tomash Schoiswohl
«I didn’t lose my shoes. I lost.»
With these words Joanna Pianka begins her reflection on her contribution to the “Off Your Shoes” exhibition, premiered in November 2023 in the philomena+ art space in Vienna.
Shoes serve as the thematic linchpin interconnecting the diverse perspectives of three artists exploring the Memorandum of Understanding, a partnership between Tunisia and the European Union.
January 2024, 38 pages, 21 x 14,8 cm, singer stitch
proofreader: Ofelia Tondi
design: Paola Boscaini
in collaboration with: philomena+, Vienna
+ Report from the panel discussion held by: Azizou Chehou, Wael Garnaoui, Leonie Jantzer, Thameur Mekki, Mariama Nzinga Diallo, Petar Rosandić aka Kid Pex
vol. B
Archives of the Earth
by Isadora Alves e Christoph Matt
ARCHIVES OF THE EARTH is a site-specific research performance which consists of the simultaneous act of on-site printmaking and text writing. The project sets out to rethink the possibilities and intentions of contemporary landscape archiving.
The publication is a collection of remote and on-site inquiries of the immediate environment of the Reykjanes peninsula and its volcanic habitat.
March 2024, 38 pages, 21 x 14,8 cm, stapled
photo by: Buero Ludwina
design by: DEAR DEER
in collaboration with: HDK-Valand & Iceland University of the Arts
vol. C
Tunnel
by Gianlorenzo Nardi e Tommaso Silvestroni
Descending into such a vast and understated space immediately brought to mind the city above as a grand organ that dreams and thinks, and to sustain this activity, it constantly requires cooling from underground waters. Everything is functional, converging towards the direction of the drains through pipes leading to the large tunnels. The tunnels are infrastructures that were originally open channels; I tried to imagine some barges arriving laden with materials. I pondered on modernity, which, in transforming, leaves behind something enigmatic and paradoxical, akin to the image of a navigable city where only rusted mechanisms, steadfast bulkheads, and shallow spans of water remain.
May 2024, 16 pagine, 21 x 29,7 cm, spillato
proofreader: Alessandra Baldon
design by: Gianlorenzo Nardi, Tommaso Silvestroni, Cristina Materassi
vol. D
Shaving a Kiwi
by Ying Liu
The booklet Shaving a Kiwi, is presented in the form of a collection of postcards. Each postcard carries a poem that serves as a short instruction to be applied for exercising invisible meditation and daily awareness. Through lingering and experimenting within the sphere of mundane acts of everyday life, Ying Liu has discovered and archived a series of acts from which thirty are selected for this booklet, ready to be practiced by the readers.
This booklet is an interim presentation of the artist’s long-term project “Encyclopedia of Motional Meditation Practices: 100 Artistic Methods
July 2024, 30 pages, 21 x 14,8 cm
proofreader: Alessandra Baldon
design by: Jing Liu, Cristina Materassi
in collaboration with: Sarmad Magazine
vol. E
You Get What you See
with contributions by: Beatrice Brunetto, Livia Polacco, Bochra Taboubi + studenti LABA Rimini (Caterina Putaturo; Francesca Saccone; Filippo Casadei; Veronica Mantovani; Benedetta Bonifazzi; Sebastiano Zanon; Emanuela Petrillo; Giulia Marrapodi)
You get what you see concludes the publication cycle Archive with three texts: “I corpi queer nelle pratiche di archiviazione affettiva” by Beatrice Brunetto, “Memories of a Glorious and Traumatic Past: The Sigmund Freud Museum as a Living Archive in Vienna” by Livia Polacco, and a conversation with Bochra Taboubi about her project “A Museum for Métlaoui.” Between memory and oblivion, visible and hidden, these texts, accompanied by the visual narrative created by a group of Laba students through design and photographic composition, explore what truly deserves to be archived today.
September 2024, 28 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
proofreader: Alessandra Baldon
about us
Corrispondenze is an artistic and editorial project, founded in Turin in 2021 by Paola Boscaini and Cristina Materassi, driven by a shared interest in exploring the theme of dwelling through collective inquiry.
Through practices of encounter and participation, Corrispondenze fosters shared reflection and investigation, exploring diverse perspectives on dwelling and transforming them into dynamic spaces for exchange, dialogue, and creation.
The project gathers stories, thoughts, and words, explores urban spaces through mapping, and proposes innovative methods of traversing them. It uses play as a tool for knowledge and as a means to create participatory spaces that reveal an urban fabric intertwined with the memories of its inhabitants, opening new spaces for imagination.
Since 2022, Corrispondenze has also evolved into an editorial project, conceived as a paper-based space for action: a dynamic platform for relationships and archiving, constantly evolving. The main research focus for 2024 centers on the connection between dwelling and archiving, culminating in a limited edition publication of five volumes, released from January to September 2024.
Paola Boscaini
Paola Boscaini (1997) is a visual artist, cultural producer, and graphic designer based in Bolzano, Italy. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts – Florence – and an MFA from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts – Turin.
She is co-founder of Corrispondenze (2021 – ongoing), a participation-based artistic and editorial project, and works as a cultural producer for the Lungomare cooperative.
Her practice spans workshops, photographic research, the activation of situated practices, and editorial production, with a focus on participation as a catalyst for shared knowledge and collective creation on the themes of dwelling, territory, community, and belonging.
Cristina Materassi
Cristina Materassi (1997) is a visual artist and cultural mediator based in Turin. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and an MFA from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. Since 2021, she has been co-founder and curator of the project Corrispondenze. She currently works with the Fondazione Mario Merz and the social enterprise Arteco, where she is involved in educational and mediation activities.
Her artistic practice is rooted in the direct experience of space and the activation of community networks. Through mapping, ephemeral installations, sculptures, drawings, and editorial projects, her work unfolds as an act of mediation and displacement between personal and collective spaces, between official geographies and marginal territories, bringing to light secondary narratives and urban interstices.
agenda
EXHIBITION PROJECTS / RESIDENCIES
// 2023
Corrispondenze, istruzioni per l’uso, curated by Associazione Ghёddo, Oggetti Specifici, Turin, Italy // duo exhibition
Watercloset, in Corneraholic by Massimo Bartolini, curated by Federico Zamboni, Bologna, Italy // group exhibition
// 2022
Corrispondenxe X Teste mobili, curated by Beatrice Cervi, Valdagno, Italy // group exhibition
Torino Creativa X Paratissima, curated by Stefania Dubla, Turin, Italy // group exhibition
NOVISSIMI+, curated by Associazione Ghёddo, Cumiana15, Turin, Italy // group exhibition
WORKSHOPS / PRESENTATIONS
// 2024
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. E You get what you see, at Easy, Rimini, Italy
Workshop Storie di spazi III– long version, Liceo Artistico Passoni, Turin, Italy
Workshop Storie di spazi II – Teste Mobili, CUTE, Valdagno, Italy
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. D Shaving a Kiwi + mindfulness workshop in collaboration with Ying Liu and Sarmad Platform, Dokhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. C Tunnel, at Back Door, Turin, Italy
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. C Tunnel, in collaboration with Gianlorenzo Nardi and Tommaso Silvestroni, at the Tunnel-pedestrian passage, Bologna, Italy
Corrispondenze X LabaRimini, laboratory project to reflect on the characteristics of physical space and its possible transformations into paper space, aimed at designing the publication Archive vol. E, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA), Rimini, Italy
Workshop Storie di spazi I, conceived for the Slavika Festival, a festival of Slavic cultures, aimed at creating a collective story of a non-existent space for the creation of Wooshoohw, a zine documenting the workshop, Turin, Italy
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. A Off your shoes, Pressato Coffee and Books, Turin, Italy
Presentation of “Archive“, vol. A Off your shoes, with Belhassen Handous, Joanna Pianka, and Tomash Schoiswohl, philomena+, Vienna, Austria
// 2023
Collective embroidery actions, as part of the exhibition Corrispondenze, istruzioni per l’uso, at Oggetti Specifici, Turin, Italy
// 2022
Presentation of “Semi“, in conversation with Simone Scardino and Osservatorio Futura, at Progetto Diogene – bivaccourbano residency, Turin, Italy
Presentation of “Semi“, in conversation with Progetto Rescue! and Alina Roxana Salahoru, at Via Baltea3, Turin, Italy
// 2021
Workshop What does it mean for you to inhabit a space?, Agape International Campus, Prali, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
// January – September 2024
Corrispondenze | Archive – vol. A-B-C-D-E
Independent artistic publication as part of the Corrispondenze project, released at two-month intervals.
// December 2022
Corrispondenze | Limite
Independent artistic publication as part of the Corrispondenze project.
// May 2022
Corrispondenze | Semi
Independent artistic publication as part of the Corrispondenze project.