I became much more aware of the dynamics of this industry, and I am still building a more emotionally sustainable way of working. After that, I had a group show at Francesca Minini Gallery in Milan, which focused on metamorphic transformative bodies in a utopic post apocalyptic world, where I showed a new serie of works that somehow started a new wave in my production, because I introduced the use of wax and the human figure.  I think the more you grow, the more you become aware of what you are doing: when you’re young you produce a lot, but maybe you don’t really know where it comes from, or where it is going. I am challenging myself more and more to go deep into my practice and explore its origins. 

Many ask me how it is to be a female curator in Italy recently, I’d like to refer this question to you. Do you think there is any difference and sex of the artist has to do something with their career development? Do you have any personal stories?

I have so many stories I could write a book about it lol. And yes sex has always something to do with the personal and professional development of the individuals, because gender is first of all a theatre of different forces that move the way we live in the world.  And maybe sex wouldn’t be so crucial in itself, but it’s about how others perceive us, and how their perception has an impact on how we perceive ourselves. As we all know, if you’re a woman, or a female subjectivity, you will have to struggle twice as much as your male peers. First of all, you have to make it past high school, where objectification, rape culture, intrinsic misogyny and systemic violence shape the way you perceive your body and the relationship to others. After that, you face a world where males occupy all the positions of power: professors, curators, museum directors, or general males populating your world that will always try to mansplain you, try to diminish your ideas, or to f*ck you. Hence, yes, career wise I feel that being a woman totally makes a difference, because you are so used to face all these situations, that you become really good at defending your ideas, and the rage is big, as well as the will of revenge. I think it is difficult to do this job if you aren’t at least a bit angry. We are living in a very interesting and challenging time, and I feel a wave of power coming from our bodies and our minds, even though the misogynistic and homophobic/transphobic waves eradicated in the Italian government and in Europe in general, that seem to have tightened up in the past years.  

Could you talk about your upcoming show in London?

My works talk mainly about community in a broad sense. The bodies you see are moulds of my friends, lovers, people that constellate the galaxy I am living in. The natural or artificial parts that complete the sculptures are somehow the elements that interconnect the bodies to their environment, as in Furiosa the honeycombs grow from the cavities of the female body wearing a harness. For the show at Mamoth Gallery in London I am gonna bring a brand new piece: ”Kobraltar”. It’s the seemingly suspended half naked body of a friend of mine wearing big raver platform shoes. Her wiry body arches in a position that both resonates with the Arch of Hysteria by Louise Bourgeois, and with a cyborg sci-fi narrative with her leg and shoes made of polished bronze. I see this work as a hallucination, an ecstatic vision someone could have after days of not sleeping, or in a desert because of the heat. It is the evolution of an insect, a metamorphic body in constant transformation. Here you can find the link to the GoFundMe for her transition and have more informations about her. I feel like my sculptures somehow depict both a self portrait, and the portrait of the person I decide to mould as how I imagine she would look like in another dimension. I am pretty much into the narrative of possibilities and dimensions, like the world of dreams, upside down realities or jumps in time. I perceive different realities as interconnected in a sort of upper wired consciousness that somehow regulates the world we are living in.