Squatting: Itinerant Exhibitions in Shops and Laundrettes

The Squatting project, a collateral exhibition format to the Panopticon editorial project, creates temporary, intense shows in everyday commercial spaces. After Giovanni Lo Castro and Enrico Pozzobon's intervention in an Ariyan Minimarket in Milan, the second edition took place in Rome on March 11–12, 2023, at the CIAO gastronomy shop. The duo Mozzarella Light (Giulia Ciappi and Marco Frassinelli) installed site-specific light and sound works in a basement room usually closed to the public. Curator Mattia Maisto conceived Panopticon.zine as an independent editorial observatory on contemporary visual culture, drawing from rave culture and mixing media. Squatting aims to build relationships between artists and shopkeepers, commissioning works that gently occupy daily spaces. Future plans include a show in a hair salon in Milan around May 2023, and upcoming publications: 'Celeste' featuring Carla Rossi at Lavapiu in Teramo, and Panopticon issue #8 with Rebecca Picci and design by Michelangelo Greco.