Iole
Di Venere

I was born and live in Bari, in southern Italy. I have been painting since I was a child, even though I have never formally studied art or exhibited my work.

What attracts me is direct contact with colour: its consistency, its texture, the possibility of using it not only as a medium, but as a living, malleable substance.

When I paint, I experience a moment of deep perception of myself, as if I could express an invisible and unknown self.

I am fascinated by the idea of creating unreal, inconceivable realities. During the creative process, I start from the absolute sterility of white to restore to the world the fulfilled desire to cover the canvas with matter.

Behind every drawing there is a journey: the search for depth in two-dimensionality, the transition from a monochromatic reality to one in which colour becomes three-dimensional.

I take inspiration from small signs in the world — imperceptible fractures, cracks in reality, faded fragments of a shattered everyday life — and transform them into colour.