Our identity as human beings is not unchangeable nor given; it is constructed through experiences and places, moulded by society and personal relationships, sometimes shattered by life events, in a constant process of de- and re-construction.

I’ve always been fascinated by the past as a place of understanding, not only my own personal history and the people in my family, but our society. Since I was young, growing up in the house of my grandparents in Venice, I would go through old photos, hand-written letters and other writings, sensing that the most interesting things in a person’s mind are rarely “told”.

In my work I explore, through the reinterpretation and manipulation of archives, the construction and deconstruction of personal identity. Although my main medium remains photography, each project comes to life through research, the use of existing images and reproduction of archival material through alternative processes of printing and manipulation.

This process of remaking and (self)discovery, can take the form of a struggle, and aims to uncover the latent violence of societal structures and gender norms—within ourselves, family and institutions. Starting from the belief that the “personal is political” [Carol Hanisch] I address universal issues of identity using my emotional and subconscious world as a matrix.

Workshops & Residencies

Plano Frontal MDOC, Melgaço, Portugal (2023); Alternative Dreams, alternative processes workshop, Imagerie, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); Celeuma #2, creative residency, Alcobaça, Portugal (2022) organised by Tira-Olhos Experimental Photography Association, Workshop of handmade light sensitive paper, Tira-Olhos, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); By Nature's Hands, alternative photographic processes workshop, Imagerie, Lisbon, Portugal (2021)

Solo Exhibitions

L’ombra, l’originale e la ripetizione, studio seco, Lisbon (2024)

On show until the 30th of June with a sound installation by Carla Santana, the show is co-curated by Nithya Iyer

Group Exhibitions

Full Circle, studio seco, Lisbon, Portugal (2024); fértil, studio seco, Lisbon, Portugal (2024), Postepisteme: Dissidències, argumentaris I transicions EMOTIVA festival, Barcelona, Spain (2022); Remapear as Margens: Hipsografia do centro f/est Amarante, Amarante, Portugal (2022); Leave Your Mark NaEsquina, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); Lisbon On Film, Lisbon, Portugal (2020) 

Awards

Finalist Emergentes Encontros da Imagem, Braga Portugal, (2023), Portfolio Review Revela’t Contemporary Analog Photography Festival Barcelona, Spain (2023); Portfolio Review Emergentes, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal (2022)

Education

Masters of Fine Art Photography, IPCI, Lisbon, Portugal, (2021-2022); Darkroom course, Imagerie, Lisbon, Portugal (2020); Bachelor Degree in Communication and Political Science, Public University of Milan, Italy (2005-2009)

Press

‘Postepisteme’: Disidencia e identitades subversivas em primera persona
by Vitor Nieves. Clavoardiendo Photography magazine
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