Biography
My work features a fusion of different mediums, such as photography, sculpure, installation, painting and performance.
However, photography is the centre of gravity in my work, although i wouldn’t consider myself solely a photographer; for a long time, I have considered photography beyond its documentary potential, believing it has a kind of “sculptural power”.
So, my main pursuit in my artistic research has become the creation of installations that exist only to be photographed: I produce unique and dreamlike scenes in specific environments.
I capture these installations in photographs, and – at the end – I destroy the material footprint.
Undoubtedly this stems from my desire to create things with my own hands: I have always enjoyed getting dirty with materials and staying in contact with objects.
However, I would not consider myself a sculptor, because I would never create sculptures to be shown.
At the same time, I’m not interested in taking pictures of things I haven’t built with my own hands.
In my artistic practice, photography enables the creation of new spaces and sculptures that have life and meaning of their own.
Photography is thus a way to put into practice a complete fading away of objects in favor of images, and therefore to push the materiality of images to its furthest.
