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Sometimes I carry a bag with me and as I walk, I pick up those things that attract me because of their shape, color, and peculiarity. With this gesture, different and distant elements come closer to each other inside the carrier bag and are charged with the signifying energy that I have found in them.
Their closeness inside the container builds a dialogue amplified by my subsequent re-elaboration of them.
In this bag, invisible elements are also inserted, such as encounters, memories, dreams, and what people take from me and what I give them. Elements that are often already there somehow get involved in this slow and fragile process of relating to what surrounds me.
Collecting is a gesture of detachment and exploration: what I feel is embodied in the small elements I collect.
In the fragility of the materials, in their faint presence in the environment, I convey that sense of physical and emotional vulnerability towards the outside world that becomes a reading code of my research.
Education
2019 - 2021
2016 - 2019
2013 - 2016
MA Visual Arts, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
MA Painting - Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna
BA Painting - Visual Arts, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (L.A.B.A), Florence
Awards and Residencies
2021
Vis-à-vis Fuoriluogo 24, Art Residency, (Winner Int. Open Call), Lucito (CB)
2019
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee VIII Edizione (Finalist)
2017
2017
First Prize contest "Incolucri Emotivi", Natalino Corazza Foundation, Bologna
International Literary Prize “Alda Merini” (Finalist), Brunate
Exhibitions
Solo
2021
TuppƏ TuppƏ, Palazzo Marchesale, Lucito (CB) curated by Matteo Innocenti
Group
2022
Abitare lo spazio, Festival della Giudecca, Venezia
2019
Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (TV)
2018
Ultra Modum Humanum, Ex Macelli-Officina Giovani, Prato
2017
Evi Bui? O la luce sfolgorante dei colori, Castello e Chiesa di San Nicola, Capalbio
2017
Secondo Livello, OttoGallery, Bologna
2016
#Tantecose-a contemporary art exhibition, in collaborazione con IED e Palazzo Strozzi, OnArt Gallery, Florence
2015
La durata reale, Artedove Gallery, Florence
2015
Sirene...lieve voce, Ex Casello Idraulico, Follonica
Interview
2020
Osservatorio Futura, Torino click HERE
Publications
2021
Catalogue Vis à Vis Fuoriluogo 24 edited by Limiti Inchiusi; ISBN: 978-88-905288-9-7
2019
Catalogue VIII Edition Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts
curated by Carlo Sala, Pieve di Soligo (TV)
2019