Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans

Barbara Casavecchia is a freelance writer, independent curator, and educator based in Venice and Milan, where she teaches at Brera and NABA art academies. Contributing editor for Frieze, her features and essays--often focused on Italian contemporary art, visual cultures, and feminisms--have appeared in Art Agenda, Art Review, D/La Repubblica, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Nero, South/documenta 14, Spike, among others, as well as in several artist books and catalogues. In 2021-2023, she is leading the fellowship The Current III "Mediterraneans: Thus waves come in pairs" for TBA21-Academy and curating the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space, with new commissions by Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano (April-Nov 2023).