The symbol satisfies the necessities of synthesis that our complicated lives require. At the same time it remains an open code, far from exhaustive, because it does not involve itself with describing reality, but rather, evokes it. Today’s society tends to produce symbols, icons and signs in extreme quantities: veritable sign posts for our behavioural maps. This social interpretation that we have of ourselves meets our most ?private realities, the life experience that makes each individual a unique subject. This encounter occurs in the only place that we have always inhabited, our own bodies. For the purpose of making the modification process used by our body on the environment, and vice versa visible, I seek to take the container-body and metaphorically “shake” it. This allows the process to flow out and catch a glimpse of the symbols of the mental and physical pathways of its experience of life, ?the most important episodes of its memory.
Starting from painting with acrylics in 1997 I moved towards experimenting with stencils, transferring xerox images on paper and making and editing videos. In 2000 I decided to target a specific territory (a city or a village), in which to act and to create portraits of people using a scanner instead of a photographic camera; the scanner, which permits a level of uniform representation with the same optics and the same focal point, becomes an instrument of visual investigation that is nearly objective. Starting from Rome in 2000 in order to accomplish my work I have travelled to Brussels ?and then to Milan, Athens, Toronto, Montecarlo, Berlin, Barcelona and London along an elaborate network made of intense and significant stops along the way; moving from city to city, relating experiences, connecting distant environments, promoting dialogue among the diversities. The crossing through space, the movement and the change are the essential points and the necessary consequences of my work. ?Researching the multiple dimensions within the journeys and the similarities ?to be found amidst the variations encourages the dialogue between people rather than impedes it; the journey recounts in rich detail the life experiences of the individuals involved.
By following an anthropological method, I first choose a theme tied to the territory that guides my research by crossing through it horizontally, then I look for different subjects, representative of the local society, to be involved in my research. The individuals selected in my work become the protagonists of the work and the symbols of the research; they are involved, scanned (portrayed with a scanner) and interviewed by me in a way that reconstructs an image not only physical, but also historical for each of them. Interviews are often documented with photographs and audio recorded.Their memories and experiences guide my journey inside the environment, in search of the spaces and structures that have influenced their own personal history, the places becoming a symbol that can be used as a point of reference.Often times personal histories of the individuals involved are integrated with the images, sounds and smells of the environment, inside visual and sound installations for indoor sites. On several occasions, I have also created temporary outdoor site specific work. Images of the individuals are usually impressed as digital prints on aluminium, shown on monitor screens, video projections or in a form ?of a printed book. Since the beginning of my work I have always paid much attention to the sound and, as being a musician, I have not only recorded specific sounds from the urban environment to be eventually used in my work, but also collaborated with local musicians to realise the soundtrack of some of my site specific installations.
In 2005 I started a spin-off project that focuses entirely on the ambient of city life. Urban structure (Imposing edifices, housing zones, open markets, asphalt grids), underlying sounds, languages and odors have become the territory in which the individual constructs a social identity for oneself, which in turn transcribes into individual memory, through constant contact with the external world. A series of artworks were created by overlapping images of different urban structures belonging to the memories of the different individuals who were selected and interviewed. This way I struggle to obtain an image of an urban environment that is the representation of a collective memory.
My aim is to visualise materially that, which in our body is not material: to explore the channel of communication between technology and psychology, to connect the individuals and socialise the experiences, by phisically traversing the metropoli and the environments, to analyse, relate, measure and expose the diversity about and from which the dialogue and the cultural exchange are born.

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