Through my art practice, I disrupt gender binaries, challenge stereotypes and question toxic masculinity. I explore gender and identity through installation, sculpture, wearable art and performance. I am interested in how art can question the categories we use to define ourselves and others.

Since 2017, I have been developing Unidentified Performing Objects (UPOs), an ongoing series of queer sculptures that exist between sculpture and garment, object and body, performance and identity. They can be worn, performed with, displayed as stand-alone artworks or activated through interaction with an audience. Through the UPOs, I explore more fluid ways of thinking about identity and the body.

My work is closely connected to my experience of growing up as a gender-non-conforming person in a small town in northern Italy. I experienced masculinity as something with strict rules about how to look, behave and exist. Moving to London in 2013 gave me the chance to experience a more diverse and inclusive environment where I could develop my identity and artistic practice. My work continues to question the gender expectations I grew up with and create space for non-binary and gender-non-conforming ways of being.

In 2024, I was selected as V&A Museum artist-in-residence. With a studio at the museum for a year, I developed my practice through working with the V&A collections, spaces and communities. In the V&A South Kensington galleries, I presented large-scale performances and a major exhibition featuring a new series of UPOs and experimented with new ways of making. The residency also allowed me to reconnect with my family history, particularly with my grandfather, who was a shoemaker.

Inspired by him, I began learning traditional shoemaking and woodcarving techniques and bringing them into my sculpture practice. I combine these traditional skills with unusual shapes, colours and materials. This allows me to connect with my family history while questioning the ideas of masculinity and craft that I grew up with.

Collaboration and participation are central to my practice. My artworks can be experienced as sculptures and paintings, but they can also be worn and performed with. Through interaction, they can change and take on new meanings, creating opportunities for people to meet, connect and transform.

I am particularly interested in working with LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent communities and creating spaces where people can see their identities and experiences represented. Through sculpture, performance and collaboration, I aim to create work that encourages conversation, connection and belonging. My practice questions fixed ideas about identity and imagines more open, diverse and inclusive ways of being.