In ‘Carte Blanche’, an artist is given free play in KUNSTLETTERS, the quarterly magazine of Kunstwerkt. Under the banner of Carte Blanche, BLANCO selects a different artist to fill two blank pages of each edition of the magazine. The artists are selected together with partners from UFO.
In this issue, October — December 2025
Nicoletta Grillo via Level Five
Nicoletta: ‘In my practice, the concept of resonance occupies an important place. The core of my work consists of conversations that unfold between images and words, in the form of voices or texts, places or people.
The two images I show here are part of the project Noi (2022). After my mother’s death, I found at home a collection of her notes and photographs, mostly from 1978. That year, feminist demonstrations took place in Italy demanding a law on abortion. The photographs show those protests, but also everyday scenes — images of friends and holidays.
By cutting, reassembling, and reinterpreting these materials, this project offers a glimpse into the daily life of a young woman in the 1970s and her entanglement with the political climate of that time — somewhere between a personal and collective history.’