About
Photograph by Matthew Brown
Multi-disciplinary artist.
Born in Rome in 1997. Based in London, UK.
My practice is an attempt to uncover the narratives embedded in the psychological, political, and poetic relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit. I often employ archives, surveys and psychogeographical maps to explore how people experience and move through these spaces. Informed by socially engaged and site-specific approaches, my work is grounded in contexts and care.
My attention often turns to the precarious spaces in which we live today. In the context of the cost of living crisis, ex-retail shops turned into art studios, buildings awaiting commercial reinvention, are architectural in-betweens that become sites to study the ever-evolving face of the urban landscape. As a way to materialise this transitory quality, my works embraces theatricality and DIY aesthetics. Through installations, performances, and film, many of my works reconfigure spaces as surreal, almost on-staged phenomena—at once critical and playful.
Collaboration plays a central role in my methodology. I often work through collective interventions and informal conversations to explore how attachment to places is enacted. I engage directly with those who have lived or worked in the spaces I respond to—residents, former retail workers, local passersby, fellow artists—foregrounding lived experience as material for reflection and co-authorship.
Born in Rome in 1997. Based in London, UK.
My practice is an attempt to uncover the narratives embedded in the psychological, political, and poetic relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit. I often employ archives, surveys and psychogeographical maps to explore how people experience and move through these spaces. Informed by socially engaged and site-specific approaches, my work is grounded in contexts and care.
My attention often turns to the precarious spaces in which we live today. In the context of the cost of living crisis, ex-retail shops turned into art studios, buildings awaiting commercial reinvention, are architectural in-betweens that become sites to study the ever-evolving face of the urban landscape. As a way to materialise this transitory quality, my works embraces theatricality and DIY aesthetics. Through installations, performances, and film, many of my works reconfigure spaces as surreal, almost on-staged phenomena—at once critical and playful.
Collaboration plays a central role in my methodology. I often work through collective interventions and informal conversations to explore how attachment to places is enacted. I engage directly with those who have lived or worked in the spaces I respond to—residents, former retail workers, local passersby, fellow artists—foregrounding lived experience as material for reflection and co-authorship.
Under the collective name Wiggle Room, together with artist Natasha Brown, I create playful, research-driven projects that explore the contradictions of artistic labour. Our interventions are temporary, adaptive works that engage with local stories and contexts to create public interventions.
In my practice, I often explore how artists socially and historically shape/are shaped by the politics of spaces, working on projects that investigate the recurring patterns that reinforce capitalist approaches to renewing urban spaces. This frequently raises ethical questions within my work. I acknowledge that I am both embedded in—and involved with—the spaces and systems I engage with. Humour becomes a tool to navigate this discomfort: it acts as a release valve for ethical tension, allowing me to unblock and create space for critical distance and new forms of imagination.
Education:
2020-2022
MA Fine Arts,
Central Saint Martins UAL
Central Saint Martins UAL
2016-2019
BA Multimedia and Technological Arts,
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Residencies:
2024- 2025
XYZ Grays Inn Road
Holborn, London
2024- 2025
PAUSE/FRAME - The Koppel Project
Participating as part of the Wiggle Room Duo with Natasha Brown, London.
2024- 2025
XYZ Grays Inn Road
Holborn, London
2024- 2025
PAUSE/FRAME - The Koppel Project
Participating as part of the Wiggle Room Duo with Natasha Brown, London.
Group exhibitions, screenings, and fairs:
2025
XYZ Grays Inn Road
Residency Show, Holborn, London
Bllee! Ough! Trrrrrr! Huhmmm!
BOTH Gallery, Archway, London
2024
This space has been closed for something like, I don’t know... 5 years, 7 years
End of Residency Show, Wimbledon, London
XYZ Grays Inn Road
Residency Show, Holborn, London
Nectar
Hypha Studios Stratford, London
International Art Book Fair: Offprint London
Tate Modern, London
METAHORROR
BOTH Gallery, London
2023
Curation of ‘What We Thought We Knew’ with An-X
Koppel Project Station, London
FIBRE
AIR Gallery, Altrincham
How to prevent an existential crisis
GaleriE106, Chelsea College of Arts, London
METAHORROR meets METAHUMOUR – part of Vestibule
Lethaby Gallery, London
2022
The Dwelling of a Flower Picked Yesterday – part of IRL Degree Show
Central Saint Martins, Postgrad Final Degree Show, London
The Thin Metal is Going Through My Left Ear Hole
LUX Moving Image, London
MERCH
Lethaby Gallery, London
2021
Transference.tv
Central Saint Martins, Interim show (online)
Grants and Awards:
2022
Shortlisted for Helen Scott Lidgett Award, ACME Studios
2020
UAL EU Postgraduate Scholarship
2018
Opera House of Rome Scholarship
2018
Second prize at ‘Fammi Vedere’ competition, Italian Council for Refugees
