Abstract
This study aims to examine the domestic environment in relation to a particular existential condition: crisis, in order to show how the experience of pain can become a means of creativity and generativity. Based on several examples drawn from the COVID-19 emergency, the first aim of this paper is to try to highlight the ability of the home to turn into an “art laboratory”, while investigating the concept of art starting from the notion of creativity and examining its multiple symbolic meanings. Secondly, this work underlines how these acts of creativity can become occasions for renewed and strengthened relationships. Finally, the focus is on the inner response of self-discovery, experimentation and inventiveness which can arise from a period of isolation and suffering experienced at home. This study adopts an approach inspired by Natoli's phenomenology of pain, combined with Frankl's thinking regarding self-transcendence and Recalcati's arguments concerning grief and death. These results may prove useful to educational and care professionals dealing with people who suffered directly or indirectly from the isolation imposed by their confinement at home or in hospital.
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