UN PUNTO SAIU

Um punto saiu (A point comes out) makes a connection between dance and painting, exploring these two arts as a “together”.

About the cooperation between dance-painting, there is a long history, which I find great; Trisha Brown, Carolee Schneemann, Yves Klein,Pollock, Rauschenberg…and even Andy Warhol. Spurred by this history, and by my background as a contemporary dancer, I explore ways to create an archeology of movement which translates the dance into visual signs, and vice versa, the painting into a body event.

The process has been developed following 3 axes:

1. Dance Diagrams > Diagrams based on repetition of the same movement structure, in long duration.

2. Painting compositions > Composition based on improvisation movements.

3. Contact Drawings > Participatory drawings based on relational movements

HAMLET IN HARAR

Collages series- mixed media

Solo exhibition- Galeria ICG, Niterói- Brasil

From the 1th of September to the 1th of October 2016

In Hamlet in Harar two stories are mixed together. The bloody Italian fascist campaign in Ethiopia, and the story of Hamlet, my grandfather, who emigrated to Harar as a settler. Both of the two stories, the one of my family and the one of the Italian campaign in Africa, are shrouded in silence and oblivion. Mixing images from family albums, with photos found in newspapers from the fascist period and today, I try to bring out of oblivion an uncomfortable history that Italy has tried to forget and remove, omitting historical faults and responsibilities towards African people.

My stay in Brazil helped me to decrypt the memory of the history of colonialism.

A history that, like that of Ethiopia, led to the domination and elimination of cultures and lives. A violence that, while leaving clear traces in the colonized, is capable of crossing the lives of the colonizers when they realize that in the midst of so much blood and pain there is no conquest, only tragedy. A collective tragedy of an entire people that marked the story of my grandfather, who at the age of forty decided to give up his life, ending the tragic life of conquest, which does not recognize the other from itself.

RAINBOW MALADY Installation

Art Context, Black Box, Brussels 2010

Spurred by the project “Hennez Mauritz & Me”

I created this site specific installation , that has been conceived for Art Context Prize. The installation vehiculates a critics to contemporary western society, its consumerism and mass culture, through piece of clothing by H&M, embroidered and burnt, and assembled them with pieces of marble, cardboard, fabrics, ready made.