Biography
“we are afflicted by the fragility of the present and this present requires a solid foundation that doesn’t exist.”
(A. Melucci)
My research involves the idea of fragility, insecurity, danger, violence, ephemerality, typical aspects of contemporary.
Those issues come into my work as "problem data", as if they were endogenous variables and are shown by building instable equilibriums or by the use of unconventional materials that are either non-durable (like soap, ice, dust , matches...) or fragile (graphite pencil-leads, glass, paper...).
By using ephemeral materials, the concept of time, understood as how long it lasts in a work of art and its enjoyment, and often as a change of its form (which takes place independently or with the intervention of the spectator) becomes crucial in my work.
Generally, I do have a preference for any particular materials or techniques; the choice of material depends on the idea that I intend to convey with the work. The material is closely related to the idea: the first is functional to the second, but also has its own independence. The material helps to create a suggestion, which certainly leads to the idea, but is not necessarily finalized in it. Thus, even the aesthetic form of the piece takes on a fundamental value, and is also, in a way, instrumental to the idea.
Actually, my research always runs along the border zone between stable and unstable, and so the precarious balance that I create through my installations and sculptures tries to put the viewer into a state of tension. This state of tension is somehow some sort of great seduction, because I pursue a strong satisfaction from the aesthetic point of view that is not just a pleasure in itself nor too formalizing, but is a kind of magic that serves to throw the viewer into a state of tension that allows the work to then continue to exercise its power.
