Studiopepe, The Intimacy
The Intimacy is Studiopepe’s 2026 Manifesto Project: an installation that chooses to inhabit precisely that moment, the interval between impulse and made thing, between the self and what emerges from it.
The project does not approach creativity as skill or output. It holds it in its most withdrawn dimension – intimate act, interior dialogue, a form of self-knowledge that does not ask to be witnessed.
The Intimacy continues Studiopepe’s Manifesto series, offering a rare entrance into the world of Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto. Twenty years of the Studio – distilled into a single, considered place.
Beyond Salone, the space will live on as project apartment – open to exhibitions, cultural gatherings and creative conversation throughout the year.
The installation unfolds as a sequence of thresholds – between silence and voice, matter and gesture, hesitation and form.
Developed across the high-ceilinged rooms of Studiopepe’s historic Viale Abruzzi apartment, with its stucco ceilings, herringbone floors and generous windows, the space becomes a stage for interiority: each room conceived and furnished to hold the slowness, the drift, the interruption that genuine creative process carries.
Works are presented not as outcomes but as traces – evidence of an interior crossing, the visible residue of what the process left behind.
Photography
Andrea Ferrari
Videography
Variante Artistica
Sound Experience
Painé Cuadrelli, Açelya Yönaç
Scent Experience
Integra Fragrances
Pillow Talks
Açelya Yönaç, Performance Poet
Orsina Simona Pierini, Curator & Alberto Saibene, Moderator
Ceramic Artworks
Arianna Lelli Mami
Flower Design
Céleste
Food
Mama Catering
Beverage
Tassoni
Partners
Alimonti Milano, Baxter, Bloc Studios, cc-tapis, Dooq, Ethimo, Exteta, Galleria Incanto, Gallotti&Radice, Hand in Glove, Hoepli, Humboldt Books, Incalmi, Mariantonia Urru, Muuto, Nobilis, Pholc, Rakumba, Sikkens, Tacchini, Tempora, Uniqka, Veragouth + Xilema, Vetreria Bazzanese
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