Turn on the lights

Oct 5

It’s fall and it will be raining all week. Which means we will be at home crafting, playing games, baking bread and cooking our favourite meals. Grey days ask for coziness at home, wether it is with candles or with beautiful lightning pieces.

Foscarini captured that feeling. The VITE project reflects the desire to make people the central focus, to talk about light not starting with the lamp but with those who live with it inside their own intimate space: the home.

VITE (LIVES) is a voyage that takes us inside real homes – in Copenhagen, New York, Naples, Shanghai and Venice – accompanied by the artist, photographer and videomaker Gianluca Vassallo. People are at the centre of the image and the narration, while the gaze is left free to roam inside personal spaces, real spaces that are also thus imperfect. We no longer look at carefully controlled environments, the artificial and “unreachable” images of photographic sets, but at homes that are lived in on an everyday basis, close-ups of the stories of the people who dwell inside them.