The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for Abysses.

The artist collected some memories related to work in the textile industry by the elderly of two nursing homes called Santa Casa da Misericordia and from other people of the Guimarães community, in Portugal.  She embroidered these memories, transferring their calligraphy, with some local embroiderers on two latin sails like those of Portuguese caravella. The fabric she chose is linen, in the past a fabric cultivated and processed by local families for multiple uses. Then she created a collective action:  the whole community held these two sails in the wind from the highest point  to see Guimarães. Exploration by sailing is a very symbolic and strong image in the collective memory and for the history of the birth of Portugal as a nation. Moreover the caravella, a Portuguese invention, with its ability to transform any kind of wind  – including those against – may take a symbolic value for the community. Colonialism, capitalism, human greed, may always lead to a state of crisis to be crossed in order to rethink the real. Memories can be turned into new visions of the future.

This project was made in Portugal curated by Latitudo and Ideias Emergentes for Magic Carpet. 

L’emergenza pandemica ha spostato l’atto creativo all’interno della vita stessa ma la poesia si rivela ancora uno dei migliori mezzi per trascendere il tempo. Il ricamo è una buona tecnica per indurre alla meditazione e calmare la mente, e può diventare anche un mezzo per comunicare. Durante l’isolamento l’artista ha scritto dei pensieri, ricamandoli con il filo d’oro su capi di abbigliamento personali. Ha condiviso questa pratica con altre persone: ognuna ha espresso un pensiero sul periodo di isolamento per poi ricamarlo. Le frasi sono diventate una serie di poesie da indossare insieme, per costruire una grammatica condivisa, capace di superare confini ed isolamento. Questo video è stato realizzato nell’ambito del programma di Scuola Popolare, Villa Romana, Firenze, ed è inoltre parte del progetto ARKAD, su invito di Dimora OZ e Analogique, Le Parallèles du sud, Manifesta 13, Marsiglia 2020.

L’emergenza pandemica ha spostato l’atto creativo all’interno della vita stessa ma la poesia si rivela ancora uno dei migliori mezzi per trascendere il tempo. Il ricamo è una buona tecnica per indurre alla meditazione e calmare la mente, e può diventare anche un mezzo per comunicare. Durante l’isolamento l’artista ha scritto dei pensieri, ricamandoli con il filo d’oro su capi di abbigliamento personali. Ha condiviso questa pratica con altre persone: ognuna ha espresso un pensiero sul periodo di isolamento per poi ricamarlo. Le frasi sono diventate una serie di poesie da indossare insieme, per costruire una grammatica condivisa, capace di superare confini ed isolamento. Questo video è stato realizzato nell’ambito del programma di Scuola Popolare, Villa Romana, Firenze, ed è inoltre parte del progetto ARKAD, su invito di Dimora OZ e Analogique, Le Parallèles du sud, Manifesta 13, Marsiglia 2020.

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for The Pillars of the Earth.

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for The Pillars of the Earth.

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for The Pillars of the Earth.

The places where the artist’s actions take place have particular meanings  conveyed or reactivated directly by the people involved in the performative act. For the city of Bologna, in the context of Art City 2019, the artist has chosen a symbolic place of the Italian Resistance,  considered the current socio-political period: the gullies of Sabbiuno, where 100 Italian partisans were killed by the Nazi-fascists between 14th and  23rd December  1944. The values of the Resistance are the thematic starting platform on which the training workshop for performative actions was based, in preparation for the photographic and video work.

The places where the artist’s actions take place have particular meanings  conveyed or reactivated directly by the people involved in the performative act. For the city of Bologna, in the context of Art City 2019, the artist has chosen a symbolic place of the Italian Resistance,  considered the current socio-political period: the gullies of Sabbiuno, where 100 Italian partisans were killed by the Nazi-fascists between 14th and  23rd December  1944. The values of the Resistance are the thematic starting platform on which the training workshop for performative actions was based, in preparation for the photographic and video work.

The artist collected some memories related to work in the textile industry by the elderly of two nursing homes called Santa Casa da Misericordia and from other people of the Guimarães community, in Portugal.  She embroidered these memories, transferring their calligraphy, with some local embroiderers on two latin sails like those of Portuguese caravella. The fabric she chose is linen, in the past a fabric cultivated and processed by local families for multiple uses. Then she created a collective action:  the whole community held these two sails in the wind from the highest point  to see Guimarães. Exploration by sailing is a very symbolic and strong image in the collective memory and for the history of the birth of Portugal as a nation. Moreover the caravella, a Portuguese invention, with its ability to transform any kind of wind  – including those against – may take a symbolic value for the community. Colonialism, capitalism, human greed, may always lead to a state of crisis to be crossed in order to rethink the real. Memories can be turned into new visions of the future.

This project was made in Portugal curated by Latitudo and Ideias Emergentes for Magic Carpet. 

The artist collected some memories related to work in the textile industry by the elderly of two nursing homes called Santa Casa da Misericordia and from other people of the Guimarães community, in Portugal.  She embroidered these memories, transferring their calligraphy, with some local embroiderers on two latin sails like those of Portuguese caravella. The fabric she chose is linen, in the past a fabric cultivated and processed by local families for multiple uses. Then she created a collective action:  the whole community held these two sails in the wind from the highest point  to see Guimarães. Exploration by sailing is a very symbolic and strong image in the collective memory and for the history of the birth of Portugal as a nation. Moreover the caravella, a Portuguese invention, with its ability to transform any kind of wind  – including those against – may take a symbolic value for the community. Colonialism, capitalism, human greed, may always lead to a state of crisis to be crossed in order to rethink the real. Memories can be turned into new visions of the future.

This project was made in Portugal curated by Latitudo and Ideias Emergentes for Magic Carpet. 

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

The artist collected some memories related to work in the textile industry by the elderly of two nursing homes called Santa Casa da Misericordia and from other people of the Guimarães community, in Portugal.  She embroidered these memories, transferring their calligraphy, with some local embroiderers on two latin sails like those of Portuguese caravella. The fabric she chose is linen, in the past a fabric cultivated and processed by local families for multiple uses. Then she created a collective action:  the whole community held these two sails in the wind from the highest point  to see Guimarães. Exploration by sailing is a very symbolic and strong image in the collective memory and for the history of the birth of Portugal as a nation. Moreover the caravella, a Portuguese invention, with its ability to transform any kind of wind  – including those against – may take a symbolic value for the community. Colonialism, capitalism, human greed, may always lead to a state of crisis to be crossed in order to rethink the real. Memories can be turned into new visions of the future.

This project was made in Portugal curated by Latitudo and Ideias Emergentes for Magic Carpet. 

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for Abysses.

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for Abysses.

The artist’s work practice usually begins with a mental image, as vivid as an intuition, which is “fixed” by watercolor; in this particular case that is the preparatory watercolors for Abysses.

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

A collective action that involved the community of migrants hosted in various reception centres in the city of Palermo, several students of the Fine Arts Academy, and some citizens. The project, investigating the concept of abyss and immense depth as a metaphor of the impenetrability of human destiny, wants to lead us to a reflection on the dramatic issue of migrants through a creative choral process on a single piece of ultramarine blue fabric, where stars were embroidered with gold thread. This final collective artwork was raised by the artist and all the participants in several squares of the city of Palermo, becoming a starry sky, supported by human columns. This project was made in collaboration with Astalli Center,  curated by Spazio Y, Border Crossing, Collateral Events, Manifesta 12,Palermo

L’emergenza pandemica ha spostato l’atto creativo all’interno della vita stessa ma la poesia si rivela ancora uno dei migliori mezzi per trascendere il tempo. Il ricamo è una buona tecnica per indurre alla meditazione e calmare la mente, e può diventare anche un mezzo per comunicare. Durante l’isolamento l’artista ha scritto dei pensieri, ricamandoli con il filo d’oro su capi di abbigliamento personali. Ha condiviso questa pratica con altre persone: ognuna ha espresso un pensiero sul periodo di isolamento per poi ricamarlo. Le frasi sono diventate una serie di poesie da indossare insieme, per costruire una grammatica condivisa, capace di superare confini ed isolamento. Questo video è stato realizzato nell’ambito del programma di Scuola Popolare, Villa Romana, Firenze, ed è inoltre parte del progetto ARKAD, su invito di Dimora OZ e Analogique, Le Parallèles du sud, Manifesta 13, Marsiglia 2020.