Visual artist, passionate about art since I was little, always with the strong intuition that it is and will be my path to follow.
Attending the historic Via di Ripetta artistic high school in Rome, I began to take part in collective exhibitions and to develop my artistic style and poetics, which starts from a search for identity through self-portraiture and collage to end in relational and collective artistic works which have fabrics and embroidery as their protagonists.
My artistic journey begins with the self-portrait, an expressive form of strong introspection that helped me overcome cultural and religious identity crises during my adolescence. At a time when I was experiencing many crises within myself, one of the few tools that helped me get to know myself well was the self-portrait.
Every time I looked at the paper and felt myself being reflected, not in an external mirror, but an internal mirror that helped me bring out the light and uniqueness that characterized me.
For many years I dedicated myself to this, staying in close contact with my emotions and dedicating myself to learning more about Islam and Islamic spirituality.
And I realized that the knowledge of myself through the self-portrait went hand in hand with the knowledge of my faith and spirituality.
In Islam we talk about the metaphor of the mirror, that of often looking at one's soul until it is cleaned to make it reflect in the mirror of faith.
At a certain point I decided to dedicate myself to getting to know other people, especially strangers.
The Pensieri Liberi project was born for fun in 2018, but took shape in February 2020 with the first exhibition at the "Puzzle" cultural center in Rome.
The idea is to collect people's thoughts anonymously on pieces of paper. The question I ask strangers is this “What comes to mind if I say Fear-Love-Home?”
Fear, Love and Home are the themes I have addressed so far, but I intend to delve into others.
Receiving people's thoughts is a gift that must be cherished, and taking care of something is manifested for me through embroidery: a very ancient artisan technique that is refined and at the same time simple and delicate.
Embroidering means fixing, keeping the word or thought that is given to you.
Hanging the Pensieri Ricamati like clothes hanging out to dry in the sun and wind, among the streets of the city, becomes a gesture that attempts to re-share the gift received, with others and with the city.
In October 2020 I exhibited together with my self-portraits, Pensieri sulla Paura in the Restart festival of the anti-mafia cultural association DaSud.
In January 2023 I exhibited Pensieri sull'Amore in the Virgiliano Park in Rome, but this time the thoughts were embroidered by many people in the free embroidery workshops that I had decided to organize a couple of months before.
The workshops are a very important step, which were missed during Covid due to health restrictions.
They are moments of fun and dialogue in which the participants learn to embroider in my presence, the anonymous thoughts collected that most strike them.
In July 2023, I was selected among many artists from the Dominio Pubblico for the Oltreverso cultural festival which took place in Teatro India, in which I exhibited Pensieri sulla Casa, always embroidered in groups in workshops open to all.
In fact, Pensieri Liberi's research tends to reconstruct the invisible bonds present between people and bring out the essence of the city and of those who live it daily through a common memory and feeling.
I am currently working on a very personal and intimate project, called Vasi Femminili, Female Vassels
They are a series of collages made with very different materials, in which one can observe the transformation of physical pain of the menstrual cycle, into inspiration, beauty and femininity.
The transformation of one's pain into positive action is a very important teaching of the Islamic religion.
I suffered from cramps and fainting due to menstruation for over 10 years and nothing was diagnosed, after many ultrasound scans and gynecological checks.
I discovered the cure this year thanks to the osteopath, who, thanks to specific manipulations, dissolved the tensions present in my pelvic muscles and uterus.
After only four osteopathic sessions I stopped feeling bad.
Months before the treatment, while tidying up my room, I accidentally took out the ultrasound scans that I had done in recent years by the gynecologists.
I remember that the first thing that struck me was seeing my vase-shaped uterus, and from that moment I decided to reuse this female research material, into inspiration and beauty.
Thus was born Vasi Femminili, an intimate search for female pain, which was also accompanied by small short videos made by my videomaker friend Maryam Francesca Monti.
