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“I have more memories than if I’d lived a thousand years” wrote Baudelaire.
We all have unmentionable, unspeakable thoughts that we ourselves fear.
We all have worries and anxieties we want to hide from the others’ sight. Or that we wish they could be seen, to be rescued.
These thoughts are so deep and intimate that are not visible to the outside world. They are transparent to the others.
But we do have them. We carry them on our skin, every single day.
I have tried to bring these fears to light. I have tried to highlight and collect them. With this work I want to make decipherable the invisible thoughts and worries we do have tattooed on our body, but that nobody usually sees.
I have asked the portrayed people to think about and feel these fears, these uncertainties, these thoughts, so that I could catch them.
This is a selection of 6 portraits (the entire project is composed by 44 portraits).

About author:

I was born in Italy (1977) and currently I'm based in Milan.
I explore social and gender-related issue in our society.
My artistic research investigates the "self", exploring its relationship with the world, with the social and natural space that surrounds the human being.
Body, identity, and emotions are my keywords.
I got a degree in Natural Science for which I carried out a research project about lions in Tanzania and for five years I had been a geological and naturalistic guide in Iceland and Morocco.
After the war I visited several times for humanitarian purposes Sarajevo where I shot a documentary.
I am now working using photography, video, installations and mixed media.

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