Baci da AWI 💋 ~The Digital Capsule of Marea Art Project

In the context of Baci da AWI 💋, coordinated by Alessandra Saviotti and Fabiola Fiocco on behalf of AWI - Art Workers Italia and hosted in Il Giornale dell'arte, we imagined an affectionate postcard addressed to the writer Goliarda Sapienza from the Amalfi Coast, which she loved and frequented between the 1950s and 1970s, as evidenced by the novel Appuntamento a Positano.

We wrote to Goliarda about where the tide is taking us and the work we are doing to broaden our gazes on the area so that, from a place crushed by overtourism, it positions itself as a center of artistic research and experimentation in connection with the contemporary feminist and queer independent art scene.

We also told her what living in a place like the Amalfi coast means today, where, from the local perspective, living also means a bit of dying. In summer, amid smog, kilometer-long lines of cars invade the only possible road and unthinkable work rhythms, and in winter, when, once the consumer season is over, people close their shutters to escape in faraway places. And one sells out beauty in the belief that it is not the right of all but that it is enough to pay to possess it to exhaustion.

During the winter, by inviting artists and opening private houses to the community that become places of creation and encounter, Marea wants to act as a form of resistance to all this and to the loss of identity and collective memory to which places like ours are destined.

Thanks to Goliarda, Alessandra Saviotti, Fabiola Fiocco, AWI, and Il Giornale dell’arte for being Marea with us. We can only be tide together 🐚!

🌊 To read the postcard https://lnkd.in/e95gT48W