cement-resin plaster, 100 x 100 x 2 cm, 2025

The installation, although presented in a 100 x 100 cm size, is conceived as a portion of an infinite system. The modular surface is not a closed entity, but a sample of the uninterrupted network of organic tunnels that pulse underground.
The tile is a “laboratory slide” and makes visible a universal biological architecture: a network of connections that exists everywhere, in the silence of the earth.
The creative process follows a path that goes from the bit to matter. The image of the ruin (45.303372, 12.185134), synthesized by an algorithm into a dense hatching, is brought back to the physical dimension through the manual and repeated gesture of treating it with silicone.
This action translates the immaterial data into a tactile trace, imprinted on twenty-five different molds.

In 45.303372, 12.185134 (Bio-tracce), the tile — a symbol of domestic order — is furrowed by biological caves that mimic the architectures of soil decomposers.
The gesture of human building and that of animal digging merge, suggesting a vision of dwelling intended as a symbiotic coexistence. The work becomes a bridge between man and the ecosystem: a fragment of fertile soil that testifies to a collective responsibility toward the future and the necessary rebirth of matter.

Biography

Born in Noventa Vicentina (VI) in 1998. In 2024, she completed her Master’s program in Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 2025-2026, she is the recipient of an atelier at the Emeroteca dell’Arte in Mestre (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa). Lives and works between Villa Estense (PD) and Mestre.

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