The artwork has been exhibited at the Medina Art Gallery in collaboration with ITSLIQUID at the international art fair -16th edition - from September 19th to the 2nd of October 2025

This work stages a stark confrontation with the climate crisis, using material tension as both accusation and warning. The dense, chaotic base—formed from crafted paper saturated in acrylic—evokes environmental degradation and the accelerating collapse driven by societal and governmental inaction. Rising through this turbulence, two vertical wooden forms coated in gold introduce a counterpoint: a fragile but resolute symbol of possible renewal. The piece holds despair and hope in simultaneous suspension, urging a decisive shift in our collective trajectory.

The artwork has been exhibited at the Civic Museum Mastroianni in Marino (Rome) from the 6th to the 21st of September 2025.

“WOUND” is a work that speaks directly to the soul, depicting a wound that opens before the viewer’s gaze like an emotional threshold. The painted surface, shaped through layered textures and contrasting colors, evokes the torn fabric of the skin as well as the invisible fabric of emotions. The represented wound may be perceived as open, raw, and painful, or as being in the process of healing, crossed by signs of reconstruction and hope.
This ambivalence makes the work universal: every viewer can recognize themselves in it, projecting their own experiences, their own scars, their own rebirths.

“WOUND” is not merely a physical representation, but a powerful symbol of the human condition—vulnerability and resilience, pain and transformation. The work invites intimate reflection, where the wound becomes a space of awareness and possibility.

Dr. Mariella Ricca

-The artwork has been exhibited at the Medina Art Gallery in collaboration with ITSLIQUID at the international art fair -16th edition - from September 19th to the 2nd of October 2025

- The artwork has been exhibited at the Ariston Theatre in Sanremo from the 13th to the 16th of November 2025.

This work unfolds across the canvas like an emotional rupture suspended in time. A dense horizontal core gathers marks, splashes, and wounds into a single pulse—suggesting the body, the voice, or a memory stretched to its limit. Movement radiates outward, yet everything is pulled back toward the center, where tension concentrates and meaning accumulates.
Reds and blacks speak openly of pain and intensity, while lighter whites and fleeting golds create moments of breath and interruption. Circular traces hover around the composition like echoes—remnants of what has been felt, repeated, or survived. The surface is not chaotic for its own sake; it is insistent, refusing silence.
Rather than offering resolution, the painting holds a sustained state of becoming. It captures the moment where suffering is neither hidden nor concluded, but actively shaped into presence. This work stands as an assertion: that vulnerability, when given scale and space, becomes both visible and powerful.

This work unfolds as an emotional field rather than a fixed image—a surface where chaos, memory, and becoming collide. Violent gestures and splintered lines speak to inner fracture, while layered splashes of red, black, pink, and gold hold traces of pain, desire, and resilience. Nothing is contained; everything overlaps, insisting on visibility.
The painting resists clarity in the same way identity often does. It is loud, tangled, and unapologetically alive. Gold flickers through the disorder not as decoration, but as persistence—moments of worth and self-recognition emerging from turmoil. The white ground becomes a space of exposure, allowing every mark to exist without erasure.
This work does not seek balance or resolution. Instead, it honors messiness as truth. It stands as an act of release and affirmation: identity not as something to be cleaned or simplified, but as something claimed through motion, excess, and presence.

The artwork has been exhibited at the Medina Art Gallery in collaboration with ITSLIQUID at the international art fair -16th edition - from September 19th to the 2nd of October 2025.

This collection reflects my journey of self-discovery as a queer person, told through the gradual transformation of color, texture, and gesture. The first canvas is raw and heavy, dominated by black—an expression of confusion, silence, and unprocessed pain. As the series unfolds, each work becomes more intentional and layered. Blacks and reds, once symbols of struggle, begin to shift into richer colors and more fluid forms.
What starts in darkness slowly opens into movement and vibrancy. The paintings do not erase pain, but reshape it, allowing space for recognition, acceptance, and growth. Seen together, the works trace a becoming rather than a destination. The missing fifth canvas underscores this truth: identity is unfinished, evolving, and deeply alive.

Light in the Dark emerges from a near-total field of black, where depth and silence dominate the surface. From within this darkness, bursts of red and gold begin to surface—fragmented yet insistent, like embers refusing to extinguish. The paint is dense and layered, suggesting weight, time, and emotional accumulation.
These luminous traces do not overwhelm the darkness; instead, they coexist with it. Light appears not as rescue, but as persistence—small, hard-won moments of clarity that break through heaviness. The composition invites slow looking, asking the viewer to adjust, to search, to allow the eye to find what initially feels hidden.
This work speaks to endurance rather than escape. It affirms that even in the deepest darkness, something remains active and alive. Light in the Dark is not about overcoming shadow, but about learning to see within it.

Light in the Dark emerges from a near-total field of black, where depth and silence dominate the surface. From within this darkness, bursts of red and gold begin to surface—fragmented yet insistent, like embers refusing to extinguish. The paint is dense and layered, suggesting weight, time, and emotional accumulation.
These luminous traces do not overwhelm the darkness; instead, they coexist with it. Light appears not as rescue, but as persistence—small, hard-won moments of clarity that break through heaviness. The composition invites slow looking, asking the viewer to adjust, to search, to allow the eye to find what initially feels hidden.
This work speaks to endurance rather than escape. It affirms that even in the deepest darkness, something remains active and alive. Light in the Dark is not about overcoming shadow, but about learning to see within it.

This work unfolds as a dense emotional field where gesture and color collide. Layers of red, blue, gold, and black move in restless motion, creating a surface that feels both instinctive and intentional. There is no single focal point—only crossings, interruptions, and return.
Black marks cut through the composition with tension, while flashes of gold and color emerge as moments of resilience rather than resolution. The white ground remains visible, allowing space to breathe within the chaos. The painting embraces complexity, affirming emotion and identity as layered, unresolved, and vividly alive.