Born in Vicenza.

Italian, 55 years old, I began working as a paper conservator/ restorator after a 2 years professional training in a restoration school in Florence. That’s how I became familiar with my chosen material which is paper.Only in adulthood I approached art as aself-taught artist, after twenty years of work as a book restorator. Since I don’t have a proper artistic education my work is quite instinctive and free. Over the years, I expanded my field of interest to investigate the possible relationship between paper and all forms of fabric. I love using paper in traditional textile techniques such as weaving, knitting, basketry, crochet etc… but I have been also practising in natural dyeing on yarn and fabrics in the need of joining and mixing different materials and textures in the context of fiber art. I also worked as the assistant of the international fiber artist Luciana Costa Gianello, my teacher and friend. Since 2017 I have been working in my atelier in Vicenza, creating jewellery and objects with paper and textile fibers and teaching art workshops.
Since 2019 I have been also involved in bringing the artistic experience to a center for the
treatment of eating disorders and at a mental disability assistance association. This work is about choices and chance. Everyone is the result of a combination of randomness (genetics, place of birth and life etc…),the choices they make and the connections with others. Change is the very concept of the work: visitors can swap the arrangement of the tiles and/or their orientation (since the pattern is not exactly symmetrical, each tile has four different sides) over and over again. The title of the work is in fact the number of possible combinations of the tiles: it is a huge number because the combinations are almost innumerable.
It is the representation of the continuous change that everyone experiences every day. Just as people adapt their attitude and change based on their life experiences, external influences, chance and luck, this work also changes based on who decides the layout of the tiles (the artist, the curator, the public, etc.) , giving it a different look every time.