Butterfly Portrait project

Mixed media on paper

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.

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.

The research addresses skin and body. Body Modification, as an art that resorts to the body in situations of suffering, has an extreme means of fighting against the difficulties of living. The skin is attacked in an attempt to reach the most inaccessible depths of the self. Today, it is important to acquire the ability to continuously redefine ourself. The goal becomes one of self-representation in society, where the depiction of one's own image tends to prevail over everything. Visually, through the medium of photography, the body is conceived as a series of fragments that can be recomposed at will and hybridised: the sign, the trace, the cut, are intended to mutate the image. Taking the various parts of the body, already modified and marked by the tattoo and the cut, is recompose, with several elements of different individuals, creating an apparent formal and aesthetic unity that in reality is not one but many parts. The scarred and wounded body is a place of spatial experimentation, it is shattered and recomposed, it presents itself in the form of directions, elements that overlap, intersect, trace relationships with the surface, reveal themselves as other than what they actually are. The attempt communicates the sense of the human condition in the face of a destabilising reality.

Mixed media: paper, watercolour, acrylics

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.

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.

Mixed media