Born near Naples, Italy, in 1973.
After a degree from the Fine Art Academy in Florence in 1996 and various art exhibitions and performances, moved to the UK to work for a number of theatres in London as a stage and costume designer, and later for the Fabrica Art Gallery in Brighton. Alongside her personal creative work as a multimedia artist, she now is Assistant Director of BN1, a Brighton based Arts Organisation described as a "Museum without walls" that promotes web and location based multimedia art and contemporary music. She has also written for "La Stanza Rossa" Italian Digital Arts magazine and led a series of seminars on Behavioural Anthropology in Florence.
Among her future projects there will be a joint participation with Tim Didymus and Rebecca Marshall in a large scale Multimedia Public Art project on the UK south coast.
Previous Work and Awards
1999 "Out of the Blue" performance, Queen's Park, part of the Brighton Festival, Brighton UK
1998 "Life of a Star" performance, Live Art Weekend Fabrica Art Gallery, Brighton UK
1997 "Power Dressing" performance, Piazza Savoia, Turin, Italy
1997 "A Postcard for the Informagiovani" Award, Angri (Salerno), Italy
1996 "Incontri ravvicinati", short film by Giacobbe Gamberini, Italy
1996 "Sadomasokitsch"installation/performance, Centro Storico, Florence Italy
1995 "Eye on the Scene" painting exhibition Studio Theatre, Scandicci (Firenze) Italy
1995 "Kaben", "Ecologica 95"International ecologic Expo, design and performance, Fortezza da Basso, Florence Italy
1995 Summer Painting Exhibition ,City Hall ,S .Pietro Belvedere (Pisa), Italy
1995 "U. Morselli" National Engraving Award Exhibition, Brisighella (Bologna), Italy
1995 "City of Gorlago" National Engraving Award Exhibition, Gorlago (Bergamo) Italy
1994 "Ready Married", Photography Exhibition, Navile Gallery, Bologna
In-depth Project Descriptions
"Life of a Star" (1998) - performance, Live Art Weekend Fabrica Art Gallery, Brighton UK. Study of celebrity as the result of morbid attention from the public. A 1930's movie star surrounded by five bodyguards describing meticulously her every move, from the raising of an eyebrow to a detailed report of her fainting, and a tabloid journalist forever asking irrelevant questions to which she would not reply. Anguish, stress, sick glamour.
"Kaben" (1995), "Ecologica 95" International ecologic Expo, design and performance, Fortezza da Basso, Florence Italy Global Ecologic Exposition in a 16th century fortress in Florence. "Kaben", Japanese for "petal", is a design object in modular form. Conceived as a creative answer to pollution, the kaben can be tranformed in an everchanging piece of art by adding waste onto its adhesive black and gold surface, creating a story, a pattern, a reflection of life. During the performance, a futuristic dress made of kabens and recycled plastic is worn to stimulate the public to make a statement, filmed and recorded at each stage of the modification. |