Born in Naples, Italy, based in Naples and PAris. Definitely rooted in literature and words, but equally shaped by research, initiated in Naples (L’orientale) and carried on in Paris (Paris X), on the relationship between fine arts and Belgian underground cinema.
I was initiated into photography from a perspective marked by documentary narrative (under Sergio De Benedetti’s Nigma Fotografi school) and later in Paris (Paris VIII) I went into contemporary art and photography establishing then my works at the crossroads of several media. Still, I can resort to photography as a tool for investigating social phenomena as much as for research in the performative and theatrical fields. I have been involved in Mucem Marseille Football & Identities research program (2015-2017) and with historian and researcher Sébastien Louis I started Ultras Youth, an investigative work focusing on Ultras football supporters, in particular in Arabic-speaking countries in the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring protests. Long-term collaborator of theatre groups, I am engaged in a performative and documentary practice of stage photography, working on and off stage. In 2013 I took part to Altofragile, device run by theatre group Teatringestazione.
From 2013 onward, with dramaturg Loretta Mesiti, we have been organising a joint Working Table, literally a common working desk on which we display our personal collections of visual and written matters. We operate in this common space aiming to analyse elements emerging from the praxis through the lens offered by theoretical approaches, to elaborate them into discourses and to create opportunities to share them publicly with other artists and non-artists. This process was born within Altofest – a festival of performing arts in domestic spaces in Naples (Italy) – was formalised with the project (e)labOratorio (Bodman, Germany 2015) – and takes currently the shape of the Table of Matters within the project ALTEReurope. Additionally, I am in dialogue with research group hosted by the journal K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts.
Exploring printmaking, I have been a resident at Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium in 2021 and student, in 2022, at the Laboratorio Avella hosted by Fondazione Morra. On the other hand, I am engaged in a digital book-making process. Eventually, I run a digital publishing house called Arroz con Pollo. Bits con Papel and a dreamy digital art gallery, Arroz con pollo II.
My commissioned works and collaborative projects with other artists can also, and sometimes simultaneously, lead me to work as art director, photographer, writer and graphic designer.
My works are in the collections of Mucem in Marseille, Mufoco in Milan, in the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, in the Ecole Alain Ducasse Paris Campus.
