Alessia Salvadore Open Studio

TRANS/FUSIONE emerges from the intersection of interdisciplinary artistic experimentation and psycho-

logical research, employing menstrual blood and reclaimed materials as expressive languages and to-

ols of inquiry. Menstrual blood—a material naturally suited to experimentation—is not used as a provo-

cation, but rather as living matter that carries biological memory, experience, and symbolic meaning.

In these works, form is not entirely dictated by the artist’s will; instead, the flow of the blood guides the cre-

ative process, allowing the material itself to suggest images, moods, rhythms, and narrative possibili-

ties. Over time, oxidation alters the fluid’s color, density, and dimensions, making each piece the result of an

encounter between artistic intent and natural transformation. This same logic extends to the choice of sub-

strates. Scratched glass, dried flowers, old periodicals, vintage photographs, and other discarded items are re-

claimed, embraced, and repositioned within the composition, taking on new relationships and meanings.

Each element retains its own memory, demonstrating how what is deemed waste can become something of value. Rather than

merely creating images, Salvadore acts as an interpreter of the cues that emerge spontaneously from the material, recognizing

figures and narratives that reveal themselves during the process. The works thus challenge the boundaries between pure and

impure, intimate and public, precious and discarded, inviting viewers to confront their own cultural and emotional conditioning.

The project operates at the intersection of contemporary art, sustainability, and body-focused research, we-

aving together aesthetic, psychological, and social dimensions. Its goal is not simply to depict a theme, but to

spark critical, participatory reflection on the relationship between body, identity, memory, and transforma-

tion—demonstrating how art can generate new ways of interpreting both material and lived experience. For

four years, *Trans/fusioni* has traced the artist’s phases of growth and change, renewing its form and expres-

sing itself through diverse voices as it confronts new perspectives on the process of the self’s maturation.