Artist statement | Creating out of not knowing
I am a multidisciplinary artist working with site- and time-specific processes.
Through the body, I investigate impermanence, fragility, resilience, beauty, and decay.
Each work becomes a "snapshot" of a place, a moment, and myself situated within it — both as an observer and participant.
The paintings presented here are part of a larger, ongoing series created over the past four years, across Italy, France, and China.
While each piece stands independently, articulating a singular experience, together they weave a broader framework —
a mindset, a living archive of movement and transformation.
My practice is deliberately spontaneous. Without a predetermined narrative, each work evolves in direct response to the environment. Using somatic tools, I engage with the sensory field around me: brushstrokes synchronize with breath, sound navigates the gestures
of hands and feet, colors and textures emerge from the landscape, the time of day, the season.
This process draws inspiration from Fluxus, action painting, improvisation theory, and years of meditation, yet its roots are deeply personal. A near-death experience during open-heart surgery at the age of four, and the long healing journey that followed,
instilled in me an embodied understanding of impermanence. It is from this urgency, this totality of being, that I create.
Through intentional immersion, I move beyond habitual boundaries. The edges between self and environment become porous.
In that liminal space, the friction between internal and external landscapes can be investigated — revealing pathways toward connection, balance, agency, and release.
My movement across mediums and contexts, from painting to performance, installation to street art, stems from the same search for symbiosis. Embracing an artist-nomad existence, I follow the winding path of the work itself.
The shifting between studio and public space exercises the muscles of engagement: of taking in, of putting myself out there.
It reminds me that stories — those I hear and those I tell — are not fixed, but fluid, evolving with place, people, knowledge, and awareness. It reminds me that life expresses itself in myriad forms. It is through this uncertainty that I find both solace and hope.
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Technique & Breakdown of series over the years
My technique is mixed-media. I integrate fine-art and industrial materials and tools:
From tools typically used for building walls or floor tiles, to soft watercolor brushes, pallet knives, print rollers and metal scrapers.
Acrylic paints, inks and markers are mixed with various mediums such as glazing liquid, conditioner and silicone oil,
substances that impact the behavior of the pigments in unexpected ways. In the streets, I use hand cut letters and elements made with yarn, fabric, treated foam and duct-tape.
Early works:
In my time as a student, the early works ("Red Heart", 2007/8 and 2009) were naïve, minimalistic drawings.
Bodies and situations, subtle yet disturbing. Figures floating in white spaces.
After graduating and over time, extra layers appeared ("Illusions & Reality", 2010-2012 and 2013),
representing the struggle to grow and resolve past, present and future.
In these formative years, I practiced a slow Sisyphean process in which every piece took months. Then a change took place,
and my practice shifted into a quick, dance-like ritual. ("Release", 2014-2016). These paintings were done in one continuous session, each session lasting between a day to three days of constant work, stopping only for food and short stints of sleep.
The Serendipity Experiment 2017-2021
Between 2017 to 2021 I was immersed in an experimental performance, together with my partner in Mind The Heart! Project.
Our premise was to accept the unknown as an artistic tool, by committing fully to relinquishing control.
We followed the first rule of Improv theater - SAY YES. For this purpose, we donated all our belongings, moved to live in a van
in a foreign country, and invited strangers to dictate our route, schedule, and next encounters. At each point we were sent to, we created public works, daily. What was planned for one year ended up lasting four, spanning more than 60,000 miles (100,000 km) in 48 states across the U.S.A. as well as other countries.
The Unimaginable Horizon 2021-2024 (and ongoing)
Living on the road for four years (of which two in the pandemic), while committing to the totality which the performance necessitated, heralded another big shift in my process. Returning to a normative studio setting in late 2021 uncovered the tantalizing realization that previous inspirations and techniques now felt irrelevant. I couldn’t just pick up from where I left off.
The journey had fundamentally changed the way I perceived stability, home, possessions, necessity.
It altered the way I lived and subsequently, the way I created.
It felt crucial to allow the full breadth of my experiences to manifest directly onto the canvas, and these experiences were
too expansive to fit into figurative works, such as the ones I created before. My previous areas of research,
such as archetypes and mythologies, felt more like crutches than points of reference.
Free from the need to adhere to one "coherent" idea or to convey a comprehensible image,
an uninhibited expression was unleashed and with it, a flood of intuitive works.
Since 2021 I’ve painted over fifty abstract paintings. They represent a form of cartography –
to places familiar and unknown, to blocked paths and to new roads.
