Project- Material Explorations

MATERIAL EXPLORATION

Material Exploration marks a shift in my practice toward spatial, sculptural, and site-responsive configurations in which textile elements extend beyond the painted surface. Positioned between painting, object, and installation, these works investigate how materials behave under conditions of tension, gravity, accumulation, and transformation.

Working with textiles, wool, steel wire, acrylic, and found materials, I construct unstable structures in which softness and resistance coexist. Knotting, stretching, layering, and suspension become both formal strategies and conceptual tools, allowing material behaviour itself to actively participate in the construction of meaning.

Rather than functioning as passive supports, materials are approached as active agents capable of shaping the direction of the work. Through processes of construction, disruption, and adaptation, these pieces explore fragility, interconnectedness, and the continuous negotiation between control and unpredictability.

Occupying an intermediate territory between painting and sculpture, Material Exploration expands my ongoing investigation into instability and reconstruction while opening new possibilities for spatial engagement and site-responsive practice.

Synthetic Garden (2026)

Wool, acrylic, and steel wire on wood frame 150x100 cm

Synthetic Garden is a wall-based mixed-media work constructed through knotting, layering, and tension, allowing the structure to develop gradually like a fragile ecosystem. Working with wool, acrylic, steel wire, and found materials, I allow each material to influence the direction of the composition, responding to its physical properties rather than imposing complete control. The piece occupies an intermediate territory between painting, sculpture, and installation, moving between softness and resistance, organic forms and constructed frameworks.

In this work, I am interested in contradiction: how something can appear delicate and beautiful while simultaneously feeling constrained, unstable, or held under pressure. The visible knots, stretched lines, suspended elements, and subtle imbalances preserve the memory of the making process, revealing the behaviour of the materials as active participants rather than passive supports. Construction, disruption, and adaptation become part of the same evolving system.

Synthetic Garden reflects my ongoing exploration of fragility, control, uncertainty, and adaptation, and belongs to my broader Plastic Planet research—an evolving body of work in which reclaimed materials, intuitive gesture, and structural logic come together to investigate the complex relationships between natural and synthetic environments, and the fragile balance that connects them.

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DISTRAZIONI DI MASSA (2026)

Textile, acrylic and wool on canvas

200 x100 cm

Distrazioni di Massa develops as a structure under tension, where weight, accumulation, and opposing forces gradually pull the composition out of balance. Rather than beginning with a fixed image, the work evolves through a process of construction and negotiation in which each material actively contributes to the final form. Textile elements function simultaneously as line, structure, and load, carrying traces of their previous lives while introducing softness into an otherwise unstable framework.

Hanging fabrics and knots create a shifting network in which gravity becomes an active collaborator. Tension is not only a visual element but a physical condition that shapes the work, determining how materials stretch, bend, support, or resist one another. Every connection alters the balance of the whole, allowing instability to become an essential part of the composition rather than something to be resolved.

The textiles retain the memory of use and transformation, bringing histories that remain visible through folds, imperfections, and wear. These accumulated traces are preserved rather than concealed, allowing the work to function as a record of material memory. Construction, disruption, and adaptation become inseparable processes, reflecting the continual negotiation between order and disorder, fragility and resilience.

Within the broader context of the Distrazioni di Massa series, the work reflects on the condition of contemporary society, where constant accumulation of information, objects, and stimuli creates systems that appear connected yet remain increasingly fragile. The suspended structure suggests that what seems stable is sustained by delicate networks of tension, where balance is always provisional and continuously renegotiated.

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NUVOLE AFFANNATE 2026

Textile, acrylic, steel wire

Through intertwined textile forms, Nuvole Affannate investigates accumulation, fragility, and suspended movement. Constructed through knotting, layering, and tension, the work evolves as a delicate structure in which materials negotiate with gravity, resistance, and one another. It oscillates between softness and tension, suggesting unstable forms that appear simultaneously organic, vulnerable, and in continuous transformation.

The suspended textile elements create shifting rhythms of density and openness, evoking cloud-like formations that seem both weightless and burdened. Knots, folds, and stretched fibres preserve the memory of their making, revealing a process in which the behaviour of the materials actively shapes the final composition. Rather than functioning as passive supports, the textiles become agents of construction, carrying traces of adaptation, instability, and resilience.

Occupying a space between sculpture and installation, Nuvole Affannate reflects my ongoing exploration of material agency, fragility, and transformation. The work invites viewers to consider balance not as a fixed state but as a temporary condition, continuously negotiated through the interaction of forces that remain in constant flux.

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Bottom: Details