InsideOut I
Digital Photo
How different is the perception of life between feeling (inside) and the reality that surrounds us (outside)? I would liken our mind to a room, our secret room that allows us to impersonate what we really feel we are, what we believe we belong to.
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Mes Danceuses
A project in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and Galleria A+A, Venezia
Fine art B/W film and hands print
2007
In today's society, the difficulty of relating is manifested even in the most intimate ties. Affective relationships have become uncertain and frivolous. The satisfaction of personal pleasure takes first place on the scale of values, transforming the body into a receptor capable of feeling emotions on command. Moreover, an excess of media information crowds our present, giving rise to a paradox: hyper-communication results in a lack of messages, symbols and deep vibrations of their experience. Here I focus on intimacy, working on the body and portraits. Memories of sincere and innocent bonds materialise on the prints and become the means to rediscover the most authentic emotions.
Attraverso lo specchio e quel che Alice vi trovó
Premio ARTE 2006, Milano (ITA)
In collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia and ARTE Mondadori
Cross Over Diapo film to Negative film
2006
The dimension hidden behind the surface of a mirror is as real as the dimension in which we live. Through the lens, the same rules of the dimension we know exist, space is expanded in the same way we know in this dimention. In this research I wanted to investigate the possibility of putting into practice a game I used to play as a child, imagining that I also possessed the space beyond the mirror, by staging the first part of Lewis Carrol's famous book. For this work I experimented with the Cross Over technique, i.e. shooting with a DIAPO film but requesting development as if it were a negative. After trying a few, I found the most functional solution that allowed me to translate the colours of that dimention.
Butterfly Portrait project
Collage portrait with Real Butterflies' wings
2013
Love is Clockworks
2024
Mixed media on paper
The Most Beautiful Flower
It's a never ending loving story of my family. It is how I add new pieces of memories. One thing my grandmother always said to her five sons: you are the most beautiful flowers in my garden. Three sisters appear in the First photo. The woman on the right is my grandmother. My dad's mom. It was a sunny winter day and these wonderful women were strolling through the streets of Padua (Italy), impeccably dressed. From the need for remembrance; from this phrase; from the intimacy of my family’s hearth, this project was born.
2022
Mixed Media on vintage photograph
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Attraverso lo specchio e quel che Alice vi trovò II
Digital photo
2010
Geisha
Premio ARTE 2005, Milano (ITA)
In collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia and ARTE Mondadori
BW film
2005
The bodies present themselves together in front of the lens. In the shot, the lights amalgamate the forms and the bodies appear as one, creating an apparent formal and aesthetic unity. The research tends towards the representation of the self linked to the other, to the couple, to love, to sexuality. The reasoning behind this research is experimentation in the hope of being able to return the image of a single person, trying to merge, to hide one figure in the other.
Surreal & Family Portrait
What is your relationship with yourself and with mirrors? What do you see reflected? How do you recognize your image? Living with a chronic illness (Endometriosis and Adenomiosis) sometimes feels like living a surreal life. That's what I see in the mirror: pieces of someone that I sometimes don't recognize, and at times, I couldn't even recognize myself among my family, who didn’t understand my suffering. I have intimately experienced my existence from the outside, imagining myself as part of a community more similar to me.
2023
mixed media collage of vintage photographs and paper
BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN a fascinating lie
"BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN: A Fascinating Lie" is a photographic
artwork that delves into the complex relationship between beauty and
suffering.In this series, two girls embody the eternal dichotomy
between a perfect outward appearance and the deep emotional wounds
hidden within.
Space and Girls are intentionally contradictory: girls with angelic
features, reflects the facade society often imposes on us.
Melancholic gaze and slight scars, represents the inner reality, the
invisible pain that many of us hide. Through this contrast, the work
critiques the illusion that beauty equates to happiness and the absence
of suffering.
The title, "BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN: A Fascinating Lie," emphasizes
this captivating and widespread lie, inviting the viewer to reflect on how
often we are conditioned to seek outward perfection at the expense of
our true essence and well-being. The piece invites us to recognize and
embrace our vulnerability and authenticity as genuine forms of beauty.
2012
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InsideOut III
Digital photo
2013
How different is the perception of life between feeling (inside) and the reality that surrounds us (outside)? I would liken our mind to a room, our secret room that allows us to impersonate what we really feel we are, what we believe we belong to.