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Interview
1. What are the foundations of your research (Art Identity)?
I begin by saying that photography, together with writing in reality, was immediately the means closest to me to allow me to interpret reality as I pleased. I have always written to speak to myself and have chosen to use photography to connect with others. After an initial phase of photographic research in the theater field, I am dedicating these years to projects created within industrial environments. I could define the identity of my current research as that of pursuing the transformation of matter and portraying it, together with the places that welcome it. My style is based on intensity: of color, of atmosphere, of story and feeling. These are mainly single images that do not need to be placed side by side with others to tell their story. I like to think they can be read, interpreted and decoded on different levels. Common points? Always free from explicit human figures.
2. Who are the artists who have guided you in your research?
My relationship with art is ambivalent, as I have always been a great user and enthusiast, with a penchant for conceptual art. Among the countless artists who have viscerally inspired me, as a stylistic icon and affinity of approach to the act of creation, I would choose Stanley Kubrick because I believe that his obsession with the curse of perfection has allowed him to reach it. Among the myths of photography I could mention: Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky; among the authors that I have had the great fortune to know and absorb teachings: Pino Musi, Luciano Romano. I don't know if by nature or by stage of life, I could still list hundreds of them... I won't go further for fear of excluding some and not being able to complete the answer without turning it into an essay. Instead, having to choose only one work that particularly excites me and to which I often refer, I would indicate a pictorial one, belonging to the trilogy on states of mind ("Gli addii", "Quelli che va", "Quelli che resta") made in 1911 by Umberto Boccioni because, at the height of futurism, it symbolizes for me the true meaning of the link between art and industry: "to enclose a moving feeling in the industrial frenzy."
3. Define yourself as a human being using three adjectives.
I don't have the gift of synthesis and, using three words, I would say "difficult to explain". Allow me to double the number of adjectives: emotional therefore tormented, courageous and curious, perfectionist because chaotic.
4. According to your vision, where is contemporary art going and where would you like it to go?
It's a really very difficult question, it would at least assume a certain answer as to where I'm going, but you never know for sure until you stop.
I will play an "easy card" speaking of means of expression: it is impossible to answer you without mentioning the advancement of technology and its integration into contemporary culture. Virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, are changing the way we think about expression, opening up new creative possibilities and creating new art forms that weren't possible before. Art and new technologies are evolving together, opening up new horizons and involving the public in, at least apparently, a more active way.
Where would I like it to go? I'm sentimental, here I'll answer you with a dreamy but sincere answer… I'd like the act of creation to be devoid of an external purpose, that many superstructures would be removed and that, with intellectual honesty, art would go back to being for the genuine the need to express oneself in an authentic way, not to satisfy a market, the public, to obtain consensus. It is difficult, especially in today's society, to distance oneself from the dynamics of the earthly world and act in an intimate way, but there are deeper, existential themes with which I deal myself even though I am still in its infancy for the art world. I am convinced that what is most precious is created for the ego, without the need for overexposure, even if the "only" value given to it is that of being jealously kept closed in a drawer.
FEW WORDS ABOUT HER WORKS
Born in Erba (CO) in 1992, she lives and works between Milan and Lugano.
Classically trained, she later immersed herself in the world of visual art, studying at the Italian Institute of Photography and specializing as a theater and stage photographer at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, also strong in her profound humanistic imprint.
You place the themes of introspection and transformation at the center of your reflections, dedicating your first research into fine-art photography to the representation of industrial production dynamics. Among her most representative series is "STEEL-LIFE": begun in 2014 and currently underway, it collects multiple images on the world of the engineering and metal industry, interpreting it as a material in continuous and cyclical change.
Winner of the "AIF 2019 - New Photography" Award, awarded by AIF (Italian Photo & Digital Imaging Association) to an emerging Italian photography talent "for the determination with which she dedicated herself to photography from a very young age, first by creating a conscious path of study, then developing his own personal expression focused on the search for a contemporary language”, in the same year he published his first catalog published by Vanilla Edizioni.
Selected to exhibit in the "MIA Proposals" category of MIA Photo Fair, an international art fair dedicated to photography and the moving image, she is one of the winners of the RaM Sarteano 2018 award. In 2021 she is among the finalists of the award Lagoon art. In 2022, represented by Cortesi Gallery, she presents her latest project "GLASS POWER, the power of fragility" created at the historic Venini glassworks in Murano. Also in 2022, she is the winner of the national tender "Utopias of Beauty". You have participated in many national and international exhibitions and your works can be found in various collections, including that of the Dino Zoli Foundation, the Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation, and the 3M Foundation.
