Irene Pittatore's COVID-19 Isolation Journal documents quarantine life

Artist and journalist Irene Pittatore (born 1979 in Turin) has created COVID-19 ISOLATION JOURNAL, a video diary series during her 40-day confinement in a seaside house in the Ligurian Riviera with her husband. The project began after a kitchen tap broke, and her work commitments in Nice were postponed and then canceled. She documents her daily life, including observations of frogs singing at sunset and ants in the bathtub, describing the work as a "pornography of segregation with some breath of elsewhere." Pittatore also collaborates with R-set / Tools for cultural workers and the Comitato Emergenza Cultura Piemonte to support the cultural sector during the pandemic. The video diary is available on her website and Facebook page, and may become a paper diary. Artribune, an Italian art magazine, interviewed her as part of a series asking artists how they are spending the quarantine.