The sea, for me, is both a real landscape and a metaphor, a boundless place, immense and often hostile to human life, inhabited by presences we can never fully know. But it is also the image of a depth that belongs to us, a depth that can frighten because it brings us face to face with what is unspoken, with the shadow of who we are.

The subconscious is that sea we hold within. The sirens, the protagonists of my works, are its inhabitants: creatures that live beneath the surface, accustomed to breathing underwater, to finding balance in darkness, and to gazing into its core. They are ambivalent figures, both alluring and unsettling, representing our hidden side, that suffocating black hole which is, at the same time, a source of truth.

In my paintings, I try to make visible the tension between fear and authenticity: to look into the darkness in order to bring it into focus, and to draw out that part of ourselves which may be the truest. Each siren seeks to restore that inner space where conventions dissolve and what endures comes to light, emotions, memories, intimate truths, transforming the abyss into a place of listening.

I look forward to welcoming you on Friday, October 24th, to share these works alongside the pictorial research of my friend and fellow artist Giorgio Pahor, to open the studio, and to engage in a dialogue about the images and suggestions that the sea brings with it.

Pastificio Cerere, Via degli Ausoni 7.