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My work intends to recover the hybrid atmosphere of "lost territories"-landscapes memories, cityscapes, and
urban ruins-, translating and restoring them in tension with the material boundaries of the exhibition space.
These translations (reterritorializations) are conceived as interplays between opposite poles and juxtapositions of different
kind of spaces in a single place. They want to call the attention to those micro-processes where the solidness of the boundaries
is contested in almost invisible ways, to highlight the ambivalent, contingent, and transient nature of the limits that structure
our daily experience. Artworks that deal with ideas of landscape seek to create possible moments of co-existence of the two
sides of the distinction inside/outside at the same time-space, meaning the dissolution of the boundary itself. On the other
hand, projects on urban ruins -abandoned buildings or in state of demolition- stress the fact that those spaces configure
systems of opening and closing possibilities, which isolate them as much as make them penetrable. In these sites the passing
of the time devours specific features and collapses the space's constitutive antinomies, i.e. Near/Distant and Inner/Outer.
My artworks are made up as assemblages of slices in/of time-and-materiality. Their installation follows a multilayered
process: the superposition of "represented" and "real" spaces, the accumulation of materials and mediums,
and the overlapping of different stratum of meaning.
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