My works arise from the need to represent the epidermal memory of L'Aquila, my hometown, devastated by the seismic experience and the unconscious desire on the part of the institutions to remove it. Arise from an experience of crossing the city, from a careful exercise of the gaze on urban culture, from a desire to report what the city itself expresses through its walls and the social tensions that permeate it, reading and interpreting them as if they were books before everything is formatted in the name of facade decoration. The subject within the work takes on a marginal, invisible aspect and the focus is directed, through detailed material realism, to the particular as an extraction and synthesis of a broader plot, which is therefore literally uprooted from its context and inserted into the exhibition space. Attention is shifted from a purely visual, material level to a deeper, psychological point of view, an introspective level aimed at delving into one's own self and one's identification with emotions, impulses, truths or dramas that the City passes through along the way of urbanization.
