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My recent work focuses on the creation of identities through the use of fictionalized characters. The shaping of the…

My recent work focuses on the creation of identities through the use of fictionalized characters. The shaping of these characters has so far taken various forms: live performance, site – specific installation, internet – based art, comic - writing, and video. I have been exploring adolescence and gender identity, raising questions both on a personal and a general level. While dealing, on a personal level, with the need to question my own gender and age identity, on a general level I have used fiction to analyze the way identity can change according to one’s own cultural references. Starting from this, I have been looking into the idea of Romanticized death in relation to youth, icons and the use of internet. I consider most of my work as an attempt to live again experiences of playing I had as a child. The elements of failure, longing and frustrated desire are therefore fundamental in the shaping of my work. My work, which is mostly performative and often involves large – scale installations, has a very strong theatrical element that I consider related to my interest in literature. The narrative of my work is often non – linear and wishes, in this sense, to find and re – propose the sameness of an archetypal figure within the fragmentation of a self dominated by the mass media. My installations can be seen as stages where a certain story happens, or has already happened. In this way, they can be seen as a single scene from a potentially longer narrative, one whose beginning and end are unknown and can, therefore, be changed continuously.