The need to create feels like a physical urge, like the drive to find food or
hunt when you’re hungry. Something that drives me to track the unseen.
When I start, I don’t know what my work will end up looking like. I scavenge
ready-made materials which I recontextualise, remake, and reshape, pursuing
an idea that evolves over time. These materials are layered with meanings,
some of which are present from the start, while others emerge gradually as I
orchestrate their relationship within each work.
My process is akin to a stream of consciousness, in perpetual motion,
always mutating. Partly autobiographical, partly an anthropological inquiry,
I repurpose the visual codes of Christianity as culturally practiced in my
parents’ hometown in Italy. Most of the objects I use are covered with a
historical dust. More often than not, they are discarded, at the end of their
lives, wilted.
My fascination with neurosciences has led me to explore the concept of
‘‘emotional memories’’. I am hoping to create a synesthetic experience for the
viewer where their previous knowledge and understanding of what an art
object does becomes interwoven with sight, smell, hearing and touch.
“Ora lo senti?”, italian. Trad: “Do you feel/smell/touch/hear/taste it now?“