In a cultural moment increasingly shaped by algorithmic image production, I continue to affirm the irreducibility of embodied experience. For me, the body is a site of presence, encounter, tension, and transformation.
My performances do not illustrate concepts—they enact them. The body becomes both medium and subject: exposed, vulnerable, and at the same time resistant.
I create situations to be lived rather than images to be consumed. I see art as a form of human and social engagement that opens new perspectives, invites participation, and makes change possible.
I would say I am utopian, a dreamer, a traveler, ironic (when I’m at my best — otherwise I can be a bit of a crybaby), mystical, strong, courageous, in love with the world, with people, with life.
I love working in many expressive languages, connecting many people, listening to many religions, and trying to have it all at once. Which is why sometimes I crash, go into a kind of catalepsy for a few days — and then I always bounce back, with more enthusiasm than before. I need a lot of sleep.
I started painting, writing and dancing (in that order) when I was very little, alongside tennis and sport. I studied at a classical liceo and graduated in Semiotics of Art with Umberto Eco and Omar Calabrese at Bologna University — a background that still runs through everything I make. I was also deeply shaped by the poetry and the presence of my uncle Elio Pagliarani: his rare but strategic advice, and his performative way of being in the world.
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Short video derived from the talk Meet the Artist, during LIUBA solo show at the gallery zanzara arte contemporanea in Ferrara (sept.dec.2023)
Presentation speech for LIUBA solo show at Pino Pascali Museum Foundation Polignano a mare (Ba), June 2019
