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 art mediator based in Turin, 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.

Through personal experience of space, the activation of community networks, the construction of counter-maps, ephemeral installations, sculptures, drawings, and editorial projects, she investigates the traces left by human habitation in a territory, revealing secondary narratives and urban interstices. Her works develop as acts of mediation and displacement between personal and collective space, between official geographies and marginal experiences, shaping portals and thresholds that open possibilities for re-signification.

Since 2021, she has been co-founder and curator of Corrispondenze, an artistic and editorial project that explores the relationship between archiving and inhabiting, involving artists in a dialogue between individual memory, collective memory, and the transformation of the territory.