By engaging in this predisposition, artists implicitly establish a relationship of equivalence with their surroundings, thereby echoing the concept of place identity.
Davide Silvioli
A Place of One’s Own brings together works by artists with different styles and attitudes, by electing painting as term of aesthetic comparison, with a common sensitivity in the interpretation of landscapes and domestic contexts, as the reflection of one's own interiority.
The same sense of place emerges, mutatis mutandis, in Virginia Woolf's famous essay A room of one's own, 1929. The purpose is clearly different but with the same need to affirm an active presence even in a brand-new context: Virginia Woolf was looking for the recognition of female literary contribution in the history of writing; these artists are matching their personalities with the places they are familiar with, albeit with different intentions.
