Projects
2023-25
Snodo
Surface d'errance I, oil painting and chalk on rice paper, hand sewn, 266 × 180 cm, 2023
Surface d'errance II, oil painting and thread on rice paper, hand sewn, 266 × 180 cm, 2023
Snodo, digital video 3'55'', 2025
Viento, digital video 0'58", 2023
Choreography Notations series, pencil on paper, 29.7 × 21 cm, 2023
Exhibition 2025
Vaste de mille-et-mille mailles - ColLaboratory, Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
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Exhibition 2024
Vaste de mille-et-mille mailles, Odradek XL, Brussels, Belgium
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Performance 2023
Opening #12, Studio Étangs noirs, Grand Studio, Brussels, Belgium
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The project Snodo, ongoing project with choreographer Lisa Da Boit, is the resumption of our collaboration that began in 2018 in research around commitment in art. The piece Stanche Mani was thus created and performed in Brussels at the Théâtre de la Vie, in November 2019. The initial desire was to move beyond our own mediums to find a territory of encounter around common questions: — What is our place in this world, what answers can we provide as human beings and artists? — What posture can we still assume to feel coherence towards ourselves? Picking up the thread of Stanche Mani, Lisa and I are looking again into these questions and into the relationship between her dance and my work.
“Snodo” is an Italian word that means junction. The project emphasizes the search of intersections and links between materials and gestures that our practices imprint on matter, time, space, bodies in the generation of a common language. For us it is urgent to focus on building peace by way of dialogue and imagining spaces for sharing.
The pencil drawings, from the series Choreography Notations, reflect the relation between drawing, thread work and writing. Drawn thread lines suggest straight movements in space while knots evoke rhythmic breaks choreographed by Lisa Da Boit.
The video Viento is a collaboration with Lisa Da Boit as part of the research residency at Ballyglass House with the support of Tipperary art dance of Ireland and the Grand Studio of Brussels, on September 2023. I was looking for a way to deploy and unfold the painting in relation to an element of nature, the latter being so imposing. The video relates the random movements of the painting caused by the wind with the gestures of Lisa, themselves inspired by them and by her imagination of the wind.
For the performance at Opening #12 at the Grand Studio on 17 December 2023, Lisa Da Boit and I presented in public a stage of creation of the ongoing project Snodo. We performed a moment of encounter between the plastic material (painted and hand sewn paper), the choreography and the space.
The painting, surface where I perform, contains the meticulous and slow hand sewing gestures I made for its assembly and the vigorous ones to capture with chalk the choreographer's dance. Lisa developed the idea of walking, a walk made up of lines, angles, and changes in direction. As she expressed “In my walk a whole range of sensations, thoughts, questions are included: changing my mind, repeating the same route, retracing my steps. And: hesitating, staggering, suspending, accelerating... In the linearity and ease of walking, a question advances at the same pace: what if it could not be like this? This is where the stumbling begins, the startle, the loss of stable ground... These hooks, these knots then echo feelings of fear and insecurity as well as a danger which becomes a concrete threat.”
On the table performance, Lisa and I started from the idea of wandering and territory (in relation to the source of inspiration for my hand sewn painting, the rice fields). We sought a relationship, a shared space, a dialogue, a tension.
