RESIDENCY

LAURA GUGLIELMI

AUGUST  2026

NIROX recently hosted Laura Guglielmi for a weeklong residency during August 2026.

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Guglielmi is an Italian writer, journalist, teacher and cultural curator. Her professional and literary work has developed over more than three decades across journalism, literature, cultural research and the arts.

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A recurring theme in her work is the relationship between literature and landscape. She is fascinated by the invisible stories contained within places: memories, absences, transformations, personal histories and cultural layers. Her approach combines literary research with a very personal form of observation, often moving between the intimate and the historical.

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This has strengthened her interest in the idea of place as an active element in a life story: a landscape can offer refuge, transform a person, influence their imagination and become part of the meaning of their work. It can also create unexpected connections between people separated by time, geography and culture.

Guglielmi is particularly interested in the space where literature meets visual art, nature and place. She is drawn to forms of contemporary culture that invite people to look differently at their surroundings, and to the possibility of using writing not only to describe reality but to reveal connections that are not immediately visible.

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Travel is an important part of this practice. She approaches unfamiliar places with the curiosity of a journalist and the attention of a writer, interested not only in what can be seen but in the stories, voices and histories that gradually emerge through observation and encounter.

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Her interests therefore range from literature and biography to contemporary art, landscape, cultural memory, travel writing and the relationship between human beings and their environment. She is particularly interested in the dialogue between different forms of storytelling and in the possibility of bringing literary writing into conversation with visual art and other creative practices.

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For Guglielmi, writing is fundamentally an act of attention: a way of staying with a person, a landscape or a story long enough for something unexpected to emerge.