Ora lo senti?

The need to create feels like a physical urge, like the drive to find food or hunt when you’re hungry. Something that drives me to track the unseen. When I start, I don’t know what my work will end up looking like. I scavenge ready-made materials which I recontextualise, remake, and reshape, pursuing an idea that evolves over time. These materials are layered with meanings, some of which are present from the start, while others emerge gradually as I orchestrate their relationship within each work. My process is akin to a stream of consciousness, in perpetual motion, always mutating. Partly autobiographical, partly an anthropological inquiry, I repurpose the visual codes of Christianity as culturally practiced in my parents’ hometown in Italy. Most of the objects I use are covered with a historical dust. More often than not, they are discarded, at the end of their lives, wilted. My fascination with neurosciences has led me to explore the concept of ‘‘emotional memories’’. I am hoping to create a synesthetic experience for the viewer where their previous knowledge and understanding of what an art object does becomes interwoven with sight, smell, hearing and touch. “Ora lo senti?”, italian. Trad: “Do you feel/smell/touch/hear/taste it now?“