“The starting point of my process is always experimenting with ways of inhabiting my body between its physical and non-physical existence’ she [Miazzi] tells me in a conversation. The Lucian traditions of magic from the south of Italy have been an important source in her research as they ascribe to an animistic understanding of the relation between the body and the world, in which ailments are understood as the subjection of the body to an external force.” excerpt from an essay by Anik Fournier