Multimedia Artist
Artistic statement
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At the crossroads of art and research, my practice explores how we live together and the collective stories that shape our shared world.
It is multidisciplinary by nature — weaving participatory performance, textiles, photography and video to reveal invisible connections and create new, plural narratives.
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In Shared Impression, embroidery and performance become tools for collective reflection on individual responsibility toward the ecological crisis.
Through Clues, I explore how photography can question the way we build meaning from our surroundings, playing with perception and shared references.
My current textile research transforms the anxious flow of digital news into something slower and more intimate.
Through embroidery — a meditative, tactile gesture — I turn this daily chaos into a personal narrative.
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Humour and playfulness run through my work. They open spaces of freedom and make creation accessible to those who often feel excluded from the world of contemporary art.
This approach also informs my experiments with live action role-play (LARP), where collective imagination becomes a space for emotional and social transformation.
Recent research focuses on fear and grief — not as endings, but as potential catalysts for collective growth.
In the Other Lives scenario, participants become co-creators of a shared reflection on memory and loss.
With Causerie Mortelle, I open a space for dialogue around death and mourning — topics often silenced in our society.
More than a performance, it is a moment of care, listening and collective reflection, inspired by the practice of Swiss sociologist Bernard Crettaz.
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My work does not aim to fix forms but to activate processes — a shifting ground where stories, bodies and imaginaries meet to imagine other ways of inhabiting the world.
Bio
Born in Italy, she lives and works in Luxembourg.
After a career in finance and a professional path in social innovation, she graduated in Textile Creation from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Arlon in 2021. Her artistic practice is multidisciplinary and draws on the richness of her previous professional experiences.
After graduating, she completed the online program Building Communities: The Aesthetics of Resistance with artist Marinella Senatore at The Alternative Art School, founded in 2020 by curator Nato Thompson.
In 2022, she undertook a residency at the Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella (IT). That same year, she was selected for the Nomadic Island residency as part of Esch — European Capital of Culture. Since then, she has joined the Nomadic Island artist collective, collaborating on artistic initiatives addressing ecological transition.
Between 2022 and 2025, she received several grants supporting the development of her artistic career (Kultur|LX — Arts Council Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture). These grants enabled her to train in playful and participatory artistic practices as tools for social transformation.
In 2025, she joined the Squatfabrik artistic residency at the Kulturfabrik cultural center in Esch-sur-Alzette (LU), where she further developed, among other projects, the participatory format Causerie Mortelle.
Since 2024, she has regularly led textile art workshops in Schrassig Prison (LU).
In 2025, she collaborated for the first time with the theatre company Les Fre.Re.Bri(des), designing the scenography and costumes for the play Âme, San et le Lion Rouge.
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