The Opposite of Here / L'opposto di Qui

A work-in-progress series.
In 2023 my husband and I purchased a home in the southern Salento region of Lecce Province in Puglia, Italy.
There are approximately 1000 inhabitants in Barbarano del Capo, a frazione of the larger comune of Morciano di Leuca.
The property, indeed the entire region is the opposite of life in my hometown of New York City*.
With these works, for the first time in my practice, I am using visual and conceptual content based on my personal life.
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to live in this duplicitous manner, jet-setting between NYC and Italy.
However, I miss and am nostalgic for the New York I could recognize and am sad about the latest incarnation of the city as the "New" New York, playground for the über-wealthy.

*where I was born & raised and where we live and work for over 6 months a year.

Ana Wolovick

Ana Wolovick