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Fellowship, A4 black and white printed paper, 6 color little sticks, 2013-2016 In Kafka’s short story Fellowship, five people appear to enjoy being a group, but when a sixth person hopes to join, he is refused admittance: it is a parable about the paradox of being a group, a community, where someone is always left…

Camouflage II, photograph, written declaration, 2010 This work has been conceived for the exhibition “Prevenire la cura” at 26cc gallery, Rome (http://www.26cc.org/). The intention of the exhibition is to show some curatorial project that have never been realized. One of them was the Stefano Taccone’s idea of organizing an exhibition inside the US Army base…

Dancing in the dark, dance performance, total darkness, 3 cigarettes, 3 dancers, 2010 Experiments are designed to isolate how we understand our understanding, and how we perceive perception, when all that is certain is that neither can be certain.”
(Peggy Phelan, Unmarked – the politics of performance) The Dancing in the dark project is about a…

When the dragon dances, 18 color prints, 24×30 cm, 2012 Every year the Chinese Buddist Association organizes in the city where I live in the celebration of the Chinese New Year. For this occasion in 2012 the Association together with the gallery Dryphoto arte contemporanea, asked to some artists to develop a specific project. When…

Going Away (Improvisation), HD video on DVD, 4’50” The discovering of writings and stories coming from what is called “the feminist nebula in Italy in the 70s” [2] is the point of departure of this work. The video is composed by three main elements: places, words and bodies. The places I show in the video…

Ossobuco, composition of images, 2009 Between 2009 and 2010 I developed a series of works made by arranging together a big number of images into a multipattern structure. A high number of images different in size and proportion are arranged onto the surface of the wall following multiple mixed criteria, as thematic or visual patterns, chains…

  Camouflage, 10 color prints, 18×12 cm, 2010 Groups of soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms have been wandering around in my own city center since the end of 2009. They were called by the local administration, whose winning campaign exploited local fears of a “Chinese invasion”,  to play a role in the war for public security.…

Nutshells, 6 color prints, 20×30 cm, 2011 This work has been done during the workshop Analytical anima(l), with the artist and photographer Olivier Richon, concerning animals and their representation. The workshop took place in a big farm, with a big enclosure in the middle where we can photograph the animals. Actually during the afternoon, I…

Sofia, video, 4’25”, 2008 This video has been conceived during the workshop ‘Second Escape’ held by the artist Robert Pettena. We were asked to explore the neighborhood and this video documents an encounter I made during the exploration. Trying to illegally enter in an abandoned textile factory I met a Chinese little girl and her father…