111 stanze

Giulia Casartelli created a series of 111 watercolour postcards, each sent to a different selected recipient.

Every postcard carries a painted fragment of Clementina Butterfingers, a short story written by the artist over several years. Through this gesture, writing, painting, and correspondence converge, turning the postcard into both image and narrative carrier.

The postcards were not conceived as isolated works but as elements of a dispersed constellation. Each one entered a private space, becoming part of a personal environment shaped by the recipient. Casartelli later undertook a journey to these locations, visiting the rooms where the postcards are kept. She documented these intimate settings—either by photographing them herself or through images provided by the recipients—and translated them once again into watercolours.

111 stanze forms an archive of this process. It brings together fragments of a text, traces of lived spaces, and acts of exchange, revealing how a story can inhabit rooms, relationships, and distances. The work unfolds as a quiet meditation on circulation, presence, and the way images and words travel, settle, and transform through personal encounters.