There are gestures that hold the world together

TAKE CARE is a European artistic project that celebrates caregiving as a fundamental act in our shared lives and as a source of creativity, connection and hope.

Bringing together artists, carers and researchers from Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal, the project sets out to transform the everyday gestures and experiences of carers into artistic language, by recognising the creativity, resilience and emotional richness embedded in this acts.

Through creative residencies, participatory workshops and a series of webinars bringing together artistic and research perspectives, the project will develop a digital archive of “gestures of care”. This shared repository will collect and preserve the stories, practices and knowledge emerging from the project’s encounters across different territories.

TAKE CARE invites us to reflect on the challenges of population ageing, healthcare inequalities, and the increasing responsibilities placed on informal carers, many of whom are women and migrants.

At the same time, it opens a space to rethink care not as an individual burden, but as a collective practice that connects people, communities and generations.