I am a multidisciplinary artist and writer working with drawing, poetry, introspective theater, performance art and writing. I am interested in areas of research engaged with perception and identity; with all the processes, discourses and practices that affect the way we see ourselves and others. This touches on ecological, political and cultural issues; on how reality is categorized and consequently who and what is accepted and who and what is excluded. My objective is to problematize fixed and singular understandings of reality, to destabilize their dividing boundaries and discriminating practices. Art has this wonderful ability to manifest, give voice and empower the intangible, the invisible and the marginalized.
My existential and artistic adventure is lead by an insatiable passion for what the theologian Rudolph Otto calls the experience of the numinous or the numinous experience beyond, above and below specific confessions. The experience of encountering what is intangible and yet constantly present in our life; that sense of truth that Jaques Derrida felt as hovering in things, but never exhausted by them. Anything I do and produce artistically and scholarly is a glimpse of that, a flickering of that impossible presence; an adventure haunted by failure.
I hold a PhD (2008-2014) in performance studies (Royal Holloway University) with a thesis focused on the notion of the numinous in contemporary performance/live art practices; an MA (2004-2006) in Communication Art and Design (Royal College of Art and Design, London) with a thesis on the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the theatricality of his psychomagic practices; and a First Class Honours degree (1992-1996) in Fine Art (Academy of Fine Art, Rome).
My existential and artistic adventure is lead by an insatiable passion for what the theologian Rudolph Otto calls the experience of the numinous or the numinous experience beyond, above and below specific confessions. The experience of encountering what is intangible and yet constantly present in our life; that sense of truth that Jaques Derrida felt as hovering in things, but never exhausted by them. Anything I do and produce artistically and scholarly is a glimpse of that, a flickering of that impossible presence; an adventure haunted by failure.
I hold a PhD (2008-2014) in performance studies (Royal Holloway University) with a thesis focused on the notion of the numinous in contemporary performance/live art practices; an MA (2004-2006) in Communication Art and Design (Royal College of Art and Design, London) with a thesis on the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the theatricality of his psychomagic practices; and a First Class Honours degree (1992-1996) in Fine Art (Academy of Fine Art, Rome).
