My works are made up of waste materials, mostly coaxial and electrical cables, which I recover in the landfill and ecological
collection centres of my city.
Old cables,
previously conductors and artificers of connection between human beings,
reworked, intertwined, simulate organic forms, resemble myological filaments or circulatory systems.
Digital minimalism,
concept, form and great attention to the process. This is the practice that
characterizes my work, which is oriented to reflect on relationship between
digital technology and man and the effects that result from it.
The artwork criticizes the senseless production process and the consumer
contemporary society, guilty of poor ecological conscience.
The growing technological development certainly improves many aspects of
our life, but it also has worrying consequences.
The World Health Organisation
(WHO) has estimated that every year in the world, especially in western
countries, around 60 million tonnes of e-waste are produced and that only one
fifth of them are disposed and recycled correctly. Most of them ends up in huge
illegal landfills, present in underdeveloped countries, where every day poor
workers are exposed to highly toxic substances just to raise a little money.
Therefore, our
well-being is having a devastating impact on millions of people, and this should
give us cause for thought.
A documentary about the Agbogbloshie e-waste
dump in Ghana, the largest in the world, caught my attention a few years
ago. Mountains of electric cables, black smoky smoke, hellish scenes and
resigned children burning plastic-coated electrical wires for copper and other
metals.
My work comes from these shocking images, which then merges into a new,
wired, interconnected language that encourages introspection.
So, my tangles speak of pain and indifference, of good and evil, of
perdition and redemption, extreme survival strips that touch, trigger.
Intricate interlacing, complicated labyrinths in which it is easy to get lost,
but with a strong desire to somehow unravel them.
In this chaos, between existential fragility and vital bulimia, I try to
connect with my fellow human beings, to nature, and to the constant
precipice on which to operate the mechanisms of equilibrium.
Being connected today is just as important as being aware of it.
