Crossing Diary

Notes from an immersive beginning in Vienna

After the long passage that began last autumn — when I left a stable job to devote myself fully to art — the beginning of 2026 finds me in Vienna, immersed in a new sense of time. A dimension that concerns not only my practice, but my body in relation.

Vienna, so distant from Salento yet so fertile for confrontation, has pushed me toward a more immediate way of seeing and to renegotiate how I inhabit space. Here the body encounters architecture, institutions, and community; it encounters other bodies, other stories, other temporalities. And within this friction, something becomes clearer.

Sorgiva continues to accompany me as an active presence. It does not point me toward a fixed direction, but invites me to remain in listening: to what emerges between bodies, to what vibrates within shared space, to what takes shape only when it is crossed together.

What is taking form is not a closed project, but a field of practice: workshops, encounters, participatory actions that work with the body in space, with trust, guidance, and listening, with forms of contemporary rituality that weave together performance, theatre, and dance. A practice that does not separate nature and culture, individual and collective, artwork and process.

If Sorgiva was born as a mirror between body and nature, between childhood and adulthood, today it also becomes a mirror between myself and the other. A place in which to recognise fragility, resistance, and possibilities for transformation.

This process does not belong to me alone. It is nourished by encounters, gazes, and questions that arise when a work is shared and brought into relation.

In the coming months, I wish to open this practice more and more: to create spaces of listening and action, moments in which the body becomes a tool for knowledge and contact, and in which the presence of the other is not an audience to be observed, but an active part of the process.

Perhaps this is the point of meeting: allowing the work to remain alive, letting the practice become porous, continuing to create not in order to fix meaning, but to build it together — step by step, body by body.