When I am making a painting, a sculpture or thinking about how to arrange and curate in a space the work I am influenced by notion of fugitiveness, entanglement, spillages and imperfection. I am fascinated by mythology, distant archetypes, and astrology.
Using a multidisciplinary approach I engage with a variety of materials to create multilayered installation. I generally work with clay, painting , fabric, sound and organic elements such as rocks, shells, dry flowers etc, I love to arrange , re-arrange some or all of these materials in a specific space. My aim is to create an ambience in which the human is not the main protagonist and it could open up space to feel and think differently even if for a short time.
Positioning myself within technique and craftsmanship is a way to stay within the material, having a physical approach. Through the ceramic work I have been exploring ideas of transformation, multiple identities, intra-relationship and imperfection. I see the cracks as a generative place. I am very interested in exploring the dynamic between object/sculpture. The vase seems to me to occupy a place of ambiguity. The object/sculptures seems to offer a place to be invaded by other materials and concepts.
My paintings are derived from observation.
I attempt to respond and re-create what I notice and sense when immersed in a particular scene. I enjoy the process to find a balance between a loose figuration and abstraction often spilling in to each other in different degrees on each both paintings and sculptures. Abstraction offers me an opportunity to play more with the quality of the paint but also another way to convey latent feelings and thoughts. The image is equally important to evoke a feeling, a story or a thought. The title in my work has a precise value to evoke or direct but never tell the complete story. The concept of 'title' is very fluid. I can choose Italian or English titles and the same title might be given to different works.
Installation space 2017