Being curious by nature, self-taught by choice, I left home at a very young age to settle for a while in places that share a common heartbeat, in cities that to some extent symbolize the often elusive embrace, of various intensities, between two ways of seeing the world.
Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Kiev.
In that melting pot of cultures, two of my great passions began to take shape: photography and painting. Meanwhile, I also finished my Translation and Interpretation studies and worked as a cultural manager in Kiev..
Photography has always been part of my life, I always liked contemplation, being in the clouds, but down-to-earth at the same time, submerging in worlds that became my own. I remember the first photos, that spontaneous abandonment to an impulse that was difficult to explain, that it would take many years to sprout, to take roots, to slowly settle when the frenetic rhythm of my life decided to adapt to another tempo.
-In the midst of a whimsical chaos of clothed trees, winding vines, leaves, water, earth and mud, the monster lurks in the forest chiaroscuro.-
With this project I try to immerse myself in the polyhedral concept of “monster”, in its meaning and evolution over time.
A monster is the one that shows, the one who warns, the one who cannot be named, who escapes the natural order to which it clings only by a thread that grows when the lights reach the mind. From that moment on, the monster will no longer be just the reflection of the society that creates it, the indicator of its morals, fears, existential changes, it will also become its tool.
