Biography
My artistic focus is upon memory of collectivity, especially related to religion and anthropology, and to personal memories in particular: where we store up our memories, how we do conserve them and how I can stir emotions and thoughts through a spiritual process.
By working carefully with an aesthetical process I highlight my own memory and the collective as well, in particular related to the folk religion that often originates from pagan culture. On my work, this concept is shown in images that represent a rituality arising from collective memory and folk traditions, while they turn in celebration, for becoming again personal memory in a cyclical way.
From my anthropological studies and my fascination about anatomical drawing, I rated the bones as a personal and a historical memories keepers, since every culture has conferred to them a spiritual worth. In fact they are basics in the rituals and venerated in the charnel houses. During lifetime the bones have the function as absorber of our experiences and they keep them as images after death. The memories fill our bones which form the skeleton and our identity, in the same way the collective memories give a contribution in the society’s forming process.
Well-defined images like dresses, anatomic parts and bones appear on my works, where in some of those may emerge paper inserts describing everyday-life scenes related to my past or to my ancestors’ memories, or also more detailed anatomic parts. My works are containers of stories that the audience does not know and uses like screens from which re-watch their memories.
Drawing is the necessary tool to continue investigating in my artistic research.
