Stefano Mirti

“If I get bored, that's the end: this means that I am always busy with a thousand different things.

I read, think, invent board games, send lots of postcards, letters and Letterine. And then I curate an exhibition, build a house in Bangkok together with Racha, and then we plan another one in the mountains bordering Myanmar to be built in the coming year. We meet around the world: we have been living like this for twenty-five years, ever since I first met her in Tokyo.”

“While eating, I read newspapers.
I like the smell and the physical sensation of turning the pages.
When I can I go to bed very early, I don't like staying up late, I feel like I'm dissipating my time. An evening spent at home alone going to bed early is the absolute.
At the same time I have a dense life full of appointments, contacts, social occasions, travel of all kinds. It sounds like a contrast, an opposition: it really isn't. I am a loner who does not like loneliness, that's it.”

“By teaching I feel like I'm actively contributing to society, I feel like I'm changing something, leaving some kind of mark. And it always forces me to learn, every day. Without ever stopping. Or almost.”