Marine One
Installation
Untitled (Conner)
Salut d’amour after Elgar
Tactile Mundanity
Watch/Wathced/Watching
Incomunicabilità
Straniera
2D work
Mini collage series
BBC good food
Gravure Idol series III
Gravure Idol series II
Gravure Idol series I
Vogue collage series
Scar series
Insect series
First Month II
First Month I
Thérèse Dreaming after Balthus
Sleeping babies
Crying babies
Innocence
Teddy Bear
Digital work
AreYouAlright
Pose
Vengeance
in 3D series
Adult's smile
Melting girls
Other
Growing baby series
Workshop
Soften!
Mundane Macabre
IMG_20140218_161905, 2024
, installation
Fabric, thread, cardboard and paper
360 x 490cm
This work is composed of photographs I took between 2013 and 2014, during my stay in a small town called Matamata in New Zealand. All of the images are low-resolution, taken on a cheap phone I had at the time. They capture fragments of everyday life and random memories: the chairs in the first café I visited, the Christmas tree in my host family’s home, and a party lunch organized by the college I attended. Scattered across the table were Kiwi staples such as the iconic soft drink L&P, feijoa gummies, and even the slightly disappointing sushi sold in local shops. These images do not attempt to be beautiful photographs but rather hold the texture of lived memory, imperfect and fleeting.
The only image not drawn from my personal archive is the white car at the center. It is a screenshot from Google Maps in 2024, carefully adjusted to match the same angle as a photo I once took of the New World supermarket. This temporal layering connects past and present, reminding me that while places remain, they inevitably change, and so does the lens through which I remember them.
The work is a quiet celebration of the ten years that have passed since my time in Matamata. It was not a period I particularly enjoyed, and I carry several difficult memories from that experience. Yet by transforming these fragments into an artwork, I have been able to revisit them with a different perspective. What once felt heavy now feels softened, even worthy of appreciation. The act of making became a way of reclaiming the past, acknowledging both joy and discomfort, and allowing memory to take on new meaning through time.
Fabric, thread, cardboard and paper
360 x 490cm
This work is composed of photographs I took between 2013 and 2014, during my stay in a small town called Matamata in New Zealand. All of the images are low-resolution, taken on a cheap phone I had at the time. They capture fragments of everyday life and random memories: the chairs in the first café I visited, the Christmas tree in my host family’s home, and a party lunch organized by the college I attended. Scattered across the table were Kiwi staples such as the iconic soft drink L&P, feijoa gummies, and even the slightly disappointing sushi sold in local shops. These images do not attempt to be beautiful photographs but rather hold the texture of lived memory, imperfect and fleeting.
The only image not drawn from my personal archive is the white car at the center. It is a screenshot from Google Maps in 2024, carefully adjusted to match the same angle as a photo I once took of the New World supermarket. This temporal layering connects past and present, reminding me that while places remain, they inevitably change, and so does the lens through which I remember them.
The work is a quiet celebration of the ten years that have passed since my time in Matamata. It was not a period I particularly enjoyed, and I carry several difficult memories from that experience. Yet by transforming these fragments into an artwork, I have been able to revisit them with a different perspective. What once felt heavy now feels softened, even worthy of appreciation. The act of making became a way of reclaiming the past, acknowledging both joy and discomfort, and allowing memory to take on new meaning through time.
