OUTSIDE THE PAINTING
For the window of the Women’s Bookshop in Milan: a meeting point and place for thinking. How to convey one’s own emotiveness to others? How to convey one’s own intimacy in a shared discussion? I put the sheet of plastic I use to protect the white wall from my canvases in the window. The splattered colours outside the edges of the canvas leave traces of the act of painting. There is a membrane between the inside and the outside, between the public thoroughfare and bookshop’s interior, which is a space for meeting. In front of the membrane-screen is a painted canvas which suggests the actual situation in my studio, while the transparency of the shop window fosters an inside-outside circularity. What lies outside the painting? What goes inside the canvas? What lies around it is more important than what lies within it. Life precipitates inside the painting.

(Written in 2016)