Through my curatorial activity in this project I did work as an activator, developing a relational methodology where I do act both as curator and community maker, in an interdisciplinary process between theatrical tools for generating common live spaces between individuals and critical approaches that build on the 
post-conceptual future of artifacts in object-based arts.

I placed this curatorial research in site-specific contexts of archaeological heritage, located in very remote areas of Calabria, a Mediterrenean region in southern Italy, where I was born, a region with a colonial past and peripherical present.

Founded and conceived by myself in 2018, I did invite several professionals towards years to be part of In-ruins core-mission, some of which are now part of the fixed team. Denying any ideology of authoriality as vertex, we do co-work together, to decolonise the notion of antiquity within museology and the one of storiography within archaeology, which we intend as an expanded practice.

In terms, In-ruins is an international residency project and nomadic art platform dedicated to the encounter between contemporary art and archeology via the transitory settlement of artists, curators and researchers in towns neighboring monumental sites in southern Italy.
The project rethinks the territory through turning ancient finds into places for encounter and it shares urgent global narratives to liminal territories for contemporary art production and fruition. Rooting its activities within meridian and Mediterranean horizons, the project aims to valorize both cultural heritage and the traditions, myths and stories of the very communities that guard it; bringing forward a non-extractive cultural process in art making with memories of of inhabitants.

From 2018 till now, In-ruins has toured residencies among several archaeological monumental sites of southern Italy: Parco Nazionale Archeologico di Scolacium (2018); Castello Normanno di Squillace (2021); Villa Romana di Casignana (2022); Polo Museale di Soriano Calabro (2022); Parco Archeologico di Sibari (2023); Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Amendolara (2023); Musei Nazionali di Matera & Parco Archeologico di Metaponto (2024).
Beside the residency art programme In-ruins actively worked within the research field, collaborating with academic institutions (UCL London, Ca’ Foscari Venice and others) as well as independent researcher, realising talks,
case-studies, publications and much more. 

For more information please check inruins.org