Marco Senaldi's Summer Editorial: The Unbearable Neighbor

In his editorial for Artribune Magazine #33, philosopher and art theorist Marco Senaldi reflects on the peculiar nature of summer memories, contrasting them with other seasons. He describes his own summer spent alone in an abandoned city, working ten hours a day in front of a computer, while his family was away. His isolation is mirrored by a mysterious neighbor confined to a small apartment under what appears to be house arrest. The neighbor never leaves, speaks in an incomprehensible dialect filled with rage and threats, and spends his days in front of a screen, possibly playing online poker. Senaldi muses on the impossibility of turning this situation into art, referencing Duchamp's idea that exposing (exposer) is like marrying (épouser), and thus a betrayal. The editorial is a personal, philosophical meditation on solitude, observation, and the limits of artistic translation.