Residency program
Curated by Sergey Kantsedal
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
May 2020 – April 2023
Supported by the City of Milan
Sponsored by VeraLab
HOW YOU DARE? is a residency program that took place from May 2022 to April 2023 at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. The project was developed to provide support to women artists affected by the war in Ukraine following the Russian invasion. Through the creation of a relational and productive context, the residency aimed to address the trauma of war and its consequences. Over the course of one year, the program developed through a series of public events such as exhibitions, concerts, open studios, screenings, and informal gatherings, establishing a community-based environment that involved more than one hundred participants from Ukraine and beyond, engaged for periods ranging from one day to several months. The residency culminated in Rolling Refugee Home Museum On Wheels (Fabbrica del Vapore, 15 March – 12 April 2023), an exhibition that brought together works developed during the residency, presented as mobile and performative structures addressing themes of displacement, precarity, and “home” as an unstable condition.
Photo by Gabriele Abbruzzese