BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Germany and raised in Italy.
My cultural formation developed at the University of Genoa in Italy, at the London Metropolitan University in the UK, and at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. But my academic experience could not be complete without the knowledge gathered from nature and from an itinerant lifestyle that took me from rural to urban environments, crossing beaches, seas, mountains, countryside and the streets of villages, provinces and metropolises in the pursuit of art and love.
For years I worked with recycled plastic bags creatively interacting with different landscapes, indoors and outdoors, forming a large body of work that has been exhibited and awarded internationally. A fellow artists of several A.I.R. programmes such as I-Park, KIAC, Bemis, McColl, SFAI, Djerassi, Aberyswyth, Montalvo, I’m also a proud recipient of the Joan Mitchell Grant, the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner Grant, the Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award and the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship Award. Voted the Public Speaks Winner for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, short-listed for the BBC2 documentary School of Saatchi, judges personal favourite and commended for the British Women Artist’s Prize. More recently the recipient of the Maryland Federation of Art Juror’s Choice, digital Art finalist for the Women United Art Movement Art Prize and digital finalist for the Amedeo Modigliani Prize.
Since graduating from Suzanne Lacy’s Public Practice MFA programme, my work has taken a radical feminist turn leading into the meanders of my fluid-eco-glitch-femininity. Currently searching for possible connections between the conceptual and spiritual, I am interested in where and how these two realms meet in art.
I love using my hands to transform, creatively repurpose and recycle materials, cook and plant, feel the soil and play with water. I express my deep love for Mother Earth choosing to make art in a responsible and ethical way as a resistance to mainstream consumerist culture.
Whilst my art practice might well be my very own emancipatory process woven into the environmental crisis, I voice myself through video, performance and interactive poetry
My first book titled …and they lived happily ever after…has recently been published by Snap Collective.