Who I Am (and Why This Space Exists)

My name is Stephanie Fazio. For years I worked in contemporary art, founding and directing a foundation in Rome. Exhibitions, residencies, institutional projects: work I loved deeply, but which at some point was no longer enough.

I felt the need to create something more intimate. Something that carried the same sense of care, but expressed in a different way. From that shift, La Casa al Colosseo was born. Not as a break from my past, but as its natural evolution.
A place I longed for, achieved through sacrifices I’d rather not list. It came to life during a time of changes that frightened me, but which I now recognise as essential.

When I walk through these rooms, I’m still surprised by how certain efforts eventually find their meaning. Guests often tell me something curious: that even when I’m not physically present, they feel my presence in the details, in the atmosphere, in the way the house makes them feel. I can’t fully explain it, but I know this place speaks to those who inhabit it. Even in silence.

In moments when I thought all was lost, this house reminded me of a simple truth: the things we truly believe in never disappear, they transform. Sometimes into something smaller and more intimate, other times into something larger than we ever imagined. But they don’t disappear.

This blog comes from the same urgency that created the house: the need to share not only spaces, but thoughts. Rome, art, the places we inhabit and which in turn inhabit us. Stories that intertwine when we least expect them.

Welcome.