Artist statement

The creation and enjoyment of art is the gateway out of the continuous state of alertness in which we live.

Embroidery, which paradoxically is a work of precision and control, once extrapolated from the popular culture that restricts it to a craft and feminine context, is perhaps the most innovative and current mode of expression available to us now.

Through the recovery of family trousseaux and spools of thread salvaged from disused haberdasheries I prepare a work of emotional archaeology by constructing embroidered relics, to which I often tie pieces of used objects, thus creating objects of memory. My artistic practice is not just a formal and conceptual exercise, but a slow process of research that is realized and transformed over the long time of preparing the work. Starting from this assumption the creative project therefore is surprisingly defined at the end of the work.

Art possesses the courage of unconsciousness, the point of view outside the fury of the world; it is one of the doors to freedom, in all its possible shades. My works are memories and moments of existence flowing at the slow pace of nature, unencumbered by control, the only life worth living.