My works are fragments of sculptures, fragments of a fragile existence to which we all belong. In them, I have tried to capture the intrinsic transience of life, that transitory nature that unites everything, every human being. The fragments are never complete, just like our existences: interrupted, marked by time, by impermanence, by fragility itself.

I chose to work with mixtures of wax and marble to create a material poetics that could give shape to this duality. Marble, symbol of eternity and hardness, meets and contrasts with wax, symbol of extreme delicacy and transience. The union of these two materials, so different yet complementary, represents the complexity of our condition: an existence that moves between the aspiration to the eternal and the acceptance of the fragile.

I search through art for the form that is born from feeling. I approach the artistic act without knowing what will come out. I try to let my feelings pass through me and then give shape to something with my hands.

A face emerges from the block of matter, suspended between the desire to free itself and the impossibility of doing so, trapped in its own material essence. This face is not just a figure, but a symbol: it represents each of us, confined within the limits of our physical, emotional and existential condition.

The concept I wanted to express is that of a profound imprisonment, that of our very nature, which binds us to matter and prevents us from going beyond the boundaries of being. However, in this condition of entrapment, the gaze becomes the only possible escape route, the only bridge to the outside, to the unknown, to what is beyond us.

The sculpture invites us to reflect on our relationship with reality: we are limited beings, yet capable of observing, of imagining, of projecting our thoughts beyond the matter that defines us. It is a gaze that searches, that questions, that resists, even when everything seems still, trapped.

Through this work, I ask an open question: how much can we really see beyond ourselves? And how much is our being trapped in matter, ultimately, part of our ability to perceive and understand existence? The gaze thus becomes not only an act of observation, but an act of hope, connection and awareness.

My sculpture represents a woman in a static position, inspired by the iconography of the first human sculptures ever created, primordial symbols of strength and fragility. Through this figure, I wanted to explore the intrinsic duality of existence: the balance between resistance and transience, between what defines us and what fragments us.

The materials used – virgin wax, plaster and marble chips – become a symbolic language, a stratification that tells the different stages of life. The wax, fragile and delicate, represents the vulnerability of the beginning, when everything is still malleable and precarious. The plaster, more resistant but still subject to breakage, symbolizes an intermediate phase, in which the shape is built but one remains exposed to transformation. Finally, the marble, hard and almost eternal, represents the aspiration to immortality, the solidity that nevertheless carries with it the traces of a life lived.

The stratification of materials on the body of the sculpture is not only an aesthetic process, but an analogy with life itself: each added layer is an experience, a passage, a sign left by time. Just as sculpture is made up of layers, so we are the result of the fragilities and forces that pass through us.

This woman, immobile but full of meaning, becomes the symbol of the human condition: fragmented, resistant, in constant dialogue with time and matter. Through this work, I invite you to reflect on the intertwining of past and present, between the ephemeral and the eternal, on life which, like sculpture, is a stratification of what we have been, what we are and what we aspire to become.

My works are born from the intertwining of material and meaning, where marble and wax, symbol of solidity and fragility, is transformed into a visual metaphor for human fragility.

Paintings reflect the ambivalence of the human condition: we are strong and resistant creatures, but at the same time fragile, subject to time, events, and the limits of our existence. The process of painting with marble dust itself has been for me a continuous dialogue between construction and deconstruction, between the material and the idea, between the grandeur of the canvas and the lightness of the gesture.

The different quantities of marble that I have integrated into the colors represent different degrees of fragility, experience, vulnerability. Each brushstroke thus becomes a story of the relationship between what appears solid and what is instead destined to disintegrate, like man facing his emotions, his fears and his destiny.

Through these works, I invite the observer to reflect on the value of fragility, not as a limit, but as an essential element of our humanity. It is in fragility that we discover our true strength: that of accepting impermanence and transforming it into beauty.

Using marble dust mixed with colors, I wanted to explore the intrinsic paradox of a material so eternal in nature that, when reduced to dust, loses its strength to become delicate, vulnerable, almost impalpable.