I am a contemporary fine artist who works with multi-media installation. Being Italian-born, and having lived in UK and Switzerland, I question ideas of belonging and identity.
I explore performance in relationship with the environment and the land, photography, printmaking, drawing, sensory writing and clay as medium having a memory that stores touch and presence. Utilising aesthetics as a tool for questioning and awareness, my creative practice is a process of making, doing, moulding and alchemical transformation. My work is influenced by the New Materialist theories of Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, which offer a perspective that acknowledges the materiality of identities and their complex entanglements with social, cultural, and environmental forces.
My practice engages with psychogeography, braiding thoughts, emotions, perceptions and embodied experiences. Bodily presence and physical interactions with the world are fundamental to how I understand and engage with the environment. My body is an integral part of generating knowledge and identity emerges as an interconnection between space, time, embodiment and everyday lived experiences. Drawing together landscape and its emotional content, I integrate collected materials into my installations, thus embracing a process-based approach that emphasises the tangible and sensory aspects of art-making. Soil, leaves and flowers, as well as fabric and found objects are included in my work to re-parse experiences. Each element is then manipulated and reassembled through ritual gestures, aiming to explore the relationship between craftsmanship, the body and spiritual dimension. Images are transcribed by drawing and printmaking, then transformed by rubbing, bleaching, scraping. Soil and sand are moulded into handmade clay; flowers, leaves and hair into paper. Poetry and mysticism intersect with the everyday, offering insights into human experience.The entanglement of emotion and affect in my work combines narratives about gender with psychological aspects of embodied experiences in relationship to migration and female identity.
My work has been exhibited and is held in private collections in Switzerland, Europe, UK and the US. I am currently represented by Le Salon Vert in Geneva, CH and Robert Fontaine Gallery in Palm Beach, USA.