SAGG Napoli (b. 1991, Naples, Italy) lives and works between Milan and Naples. She is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, video, sculpture, photography, writing, and digital culture. Rooted in a critical engagement with Neapolitan identity, her practice questions class, gender, regionalism, and mental health through an unapologetically expressive framework she defines as South Aesthetics. Drawing on architectural forms, spatial hierarchies, and visual and performative codes from Southern Italy, her work challenges dominant narratives of beauty, power, and cultural value, engaging the body as both subject and medium. Since 2020, SAGG Napoli has integrated competitive archery into her practice as a process of recovery through repetition and discipline, using physical training as a method to explore resilience, containment, and the reconstruction of the self.

For this exhibition, the spatial and sound installation, with a special contribution by composer and sound designer Matteo Pit, brings together materials, objects, and alterations found in social housing and self-built homes. Based on research carried out in Porto and references from Southern Italy, particularly the Salento region, the project examines how residents repair, adapt, and extend their homes, who has the authority to make such changes, and why some interventions are recognized as design or care while others are dismissed as disorder.

The exhibition is organized by the Fundação de Serralves — Museum of Contemporary Art, and it was curated by Inês Grosso, Chief Curator of Serralves Museum.
Assistant Curator: Mattia Tosti