


addomesticare
(menocom. addimesticare, addimestichire) v. tr. [der. di domestico] (io addomèstico,tu addomèstichi, ecc.). –
1. Rendere domestico, togliere dallo stato di selvatichezza: a. gli animali, le piante; a. un terreno, toglierlo dallo stato incolto e primitivo, lavorandolo.[...] Nell’intr. pron., addomesticarsi con uno, con una cosa, prenderci confidenza, acquistare familiarità: m’ero presto addomesticato con la gente del paese; addomesticarsi con una lingua.
2920 days, 8 years.
The daily routine, the memories, the good things and the bad. Things sealed ina box, out of sight and forgotten. Accidental rediscoveries. New things to lockaway, sooner or later. The space that’s missing, the space borrowed, the spacerented: 61 euros per square meter. Will it be enough?
2920 days, 8 years—will they be enough to tame one’s life, to fit it intocountless boxes waiting to be freed, finally, to let it flow and take the shapeof a home?After recounting domestic spaces on behalf of others, this is an opportunityto open some of those boxes and, through the objects that patiently inhabitthem, tell the story of the space they are waiting to fill.