How do you describe your own art practice?
Everything starts from a personal event or from an event I experience closely. It is usually something that somewhat shocks me emotionally. I then tend to become more and more curious and start studying, reading and doing an obsessive and analytic research.
This research period always takes a long time and helps me to find the right detachment from the initial shock.
The research period is accompanied by the artistic process which is a combination of my emotional and rational side. I try to find the most functional medium for the concept I want to express, and it can be photography, video, sound, sculpture or even performance.
IO sono memoria
Forgetting Maps series
Madeleine woolen sculpture
Curva Pura Gallery
Rome 2021
Which question or theme is central in your work?
Things change, undermined by various factors, both internal and external, which integrate and amalgamate profoundly with existing reality, so essence and form are mutated. This change always strikes me.
IO sono memoria
Memory traces
video Curva Pura Gallery
Rome 2021
What was your first experience with art?
I don’t know if it was the first experience but certainly one of those that touched me the most. Many years ago, I visited René Magritte’s exhibition in Rome. I was completely fascinated by his paintings, where everything is overturned and thus assumes a new reality. I remember coming back home with the exhibition catalogue and in the following months I made two pictorial copies of his works.
The act of remembering and forgetting
film still
What is your greatest source of inspiration?
In the last years I would say neuroscience, I’m really fascinated about the mystery of the brain, but even books, movies, ambient sound and visiting exhibitions of artists who work with different media.
Forgetting Maps series
Madeleine woolen sculpture, detail
Curva Pura Gallery
Rome 2021
What do you need in order to create your work?
Curiosity and, of course, time to help me sediment the experience and the knowledge I have assimilated during the research period.
IO sono memoria
Curva Pura Gallery
Rome 2021
What work or artist has most recently surprised you?
Last year, one month before the pandemic spread in Europe, I visited Anna Maria Maiolino’s retrospective exhibition, “Making Love Revolutionary”, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. I was completely touched by her art practice, by her ability to work with so many different media and by the way she is able to transmit strength through fragility. She is to me poetic and visceral at the same time.
Forgetting Map
3 Wooden frame, museum glass
Format cm. 25x39
Curva Pura Gallery
Rome 2021
