Manifesto for Reconstruction

In the fracture runs the painful emptiness of the newly made holes, in the reunion of the fragments that you recover and the farewell to those irremediably lost marks the mark of your existence.

"The complexity of this reconstruction transforms you, making you another; at the end of the day, that is who you are.

"You are the moment of your reconstruction, the manifestation of those painful and beautiful moments, the trace of your inflections and changes of direction, the strength that arises from your fragility, with nothing to hide you are the evidence of life beating."

The works I present are part of the "Manifesto for Reconstruction", a series I have been working on during the pandemic.

I began by gathering a series of Giclees I had made in the past and breaking them into pieces to reconstruct a new work; only after this particular process, I realized the creation that is possible to bring forth after the ruptures of the known. Through scraps of different works, I began a process of reconstruction and transformation.

"Manifesto for Reconstruction" is a very personal series where I pay tribute to the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, based on repairing fractures to give beauty to scars.