My current artistic practice is the inevitable continuation of my previous job: I used to be a restorer, and today, as an artist, I am pursuing exactly the same goal: I aim to reach an ideal renaissance of values such as protection and respect of the past to prevent the nowadays altered reality to transform precious memory in mere dust. My main sources of conceptual inspiration are Cesare Brandi, the Italian father of the theory of restoration and the British philosopher John Ruskin. By choosing the self-portrait as human mean of investigation of the shifts in the female condition in contemporary society, I end up touching on the theme of environment. This way, the concept of protection and recovery is transformed into what I call "visual ecology", which entails including in the images of my work upcycled from the internet, fragments of paintings, personal drawings, materials of various kinds like vintage frames and glass, with the aim of renewing the symbolic value of the past. I perceive the above elements as grafts into photography, a space for free thought, where the past is welcome and regenerated, and where I examine concepts through a Romantic lens.
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