This series of portraits shows our relationship to the excessive consumption of products and the overproduction of plastic while keeping a visual aesthetic close to advertising.

Softwares used : Cinema4D / Octane Render / Photoshop

Decades of consumerism

Living sculptures born in Berlin Schöneberg during January 2021. Coffee grounds 79%, agar agar 13%, vegetable glycerine 9%. May contain: eggshells, human hair, leaves, brewer's spent grain (malt). Coffee grounds, the main ingredient of Paramecium Capulus, helps microorganisms beneficial to plant growth thrive, and attract earthworms.

Sculptoric installation exploring how to work with and for an ecosystem by transforming organic waste into urban living sculptures that are ephemeral, biodegradable, and produced by the collaboration of different living and non-living organisms.

Paramecium capulus

A modern recreation of "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" by Caravaggio, "Doubting Thomas" serves as commentary on violence against black men as well as likening and depicting black men as historical religious figures.

Doubting Thomas

Hard Drive talks about inventing the future and reinventing the past. Leaving memories behind end up being a way to adapt to the passage of time, in the attempt - for all purposes - to avoid feelings. Unconsciously or not, in the search for novelty and which, in some cases, is nothing but a reheated trend, one tends to abandon one's own personality if it is not in accordance with fashion standards.  In the search for who you want to be, may stifle who you are.

Hard Drive

Moments of Naked Truce were found on the shores of Northern Ireland, as humans and landscapes surrender in surreal settings.

From a wish to seek refuge and peace while escaping from the tensions of a torn city, this project embarks on a journey to the countryside and into the subconscious. Analog portraits that were taken along the coast of Northern Ireland were digitally reassembled, negotiating their place within the sceneries and between reality and imagination. 

What is discovered is an uncanny dream of diplomacy that emerges with the combination of the naked human body and the dark beauty of nature, a collision and conciliation of the familiar and the fantastical.

Naked Truce

Flora di Stabiae Villa di Arianna
Pompeii. Charcoal and pigments on paper. 33 x 25 cm. 2021,

Flora di Stabiae

Insânia

Installation and artist's book

Installation: Agave
Dimensions variable
Artist's book: Agave, glass, printing on paper
Dimensions: 27 x 17 x 1 cm

A se-cura da linha is an artistic investigation and work, commissioned by the Bienal de Coruche 2019, in Portugal. A se-cura da linha was developed during Bienal de Coruche residency and questions our relationship with the sound and meaning of the community where I worked, the winery, and everything that is or has ever been associated with it. An installation and an artist's book, as well as scores/graphic notations and site-specific poetic experience at Adega Joaquim Eugénio.

Bienal de Coruche 2019 | 28 September / 13 October

A se-cura da linha

Low probability - A2 format drawing - charcoal, oil pencil, chalk.

Additional digital re-composition of the piece.

Low probability

Acrylic on canvas 64*87 cm

Statement: 
A portrait that shows a human figure from the back, where’s the traditional and realistic composition is tearing apart, originating fragments. Those are spreading little pieces of the person across the space. I took inspiration from a biological process called ecdise, and this metaphors serves to suggest that sometimes we might be inflexible, that we have built our identity like a cocoon that now is hard, and it needs to be broken in order to achieve a healthier state of being. The profile of the face show us that a regenerating process has begun, what introduce the idea of a new cycle. I have chosen not putting the figure on the center to enhance the transformative action. The decentralization had the purpose of deconstructe the pedestal that a center symbolizes in a portrait. 

Ecdise

Photography is an expression of a metamorphosis: from the initial showing people who have simply appeared before the lens to presenting all they might be(come), only if we consider all the layers and fluidity of the outer identities.  It sometimes distorts meanings only to decode them from another angle; sometimes it disperses outer identities so it could rebuild them from the inside. At other times, it camouflages or over exaggerates certain individual elements in order to point to the whole or, on the contrary, to confront us with its absence.

Human Segments

"Nodos" is a reflection about the influence of our ancestors in the construction of our personal identity and memory’s roll. the way we narrate ourselves and how our family’s story is esencial to the construction of who we are. A node is a point of union, interrelation and connection used in different disciplines. Based on the links generated between my grandmother, my mother and myself, I investigated these relationships that were created. How much of our ancestors are in us? 

The coordinates of this journey are the family album photographs, a childhood drawing or an X-ray. With this map I travel through the family history. Reconstructing my own history means interpreting it, altering it and creating it with my experiences and perceptions, using the stories I have been told, those I have heard or those I have imagined from the documents I have received.

Going through their fears and dreams, analyzing their gestures or reviewing their lives allows me to break through the barriers that adopting the role of a granddaughter or daughter implies. It is the exercise of putting all three on the same level in order to connect and empathize in a different way than I have done up to now. Therefore, Nodos is a journey to the past with a view to the future, because it is the attempt to draw a generational map where distances are narrowed and these three generations and those that follow are put on the same temporal and personal dimensions.


Nodos

“Poles No. 14”; Acrylic on canvas; 43 1/4” x 42 3/4”

"Poles No.14"

"Fragments of Self" is my latest new self-portrait series, which is a very personal introspection of my thoughts and feelings, but at the same time, it is also a general exploration of the Self and all of its subconscious layers. 
I often like to incorporate floral motives in my work since I find they symbolize rebirth, creation, and metamorphosis, which are the main parts of our identity. 

Fragments of Self

“Stones” shows the results of various journeys and walks on which stones where collected. Driven by intuition and Gromoll’s sense of natural beauty these particular objects displayed a true sense of individuality.
The act of balancing each stone on a single nail elevates them beyond their material presence, becoming entities who act as guides in this newly arisen landscape. Only with attention to ones surroundings and light footing will visitors be able to navigate this delicate world.

Stones

video stopmotion, sound, dimension variable, projection on white wall, 16:40, 2019
This work has been produced during a residency at the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2019.

"Like a fanatic who swallows the desert, I require from music the desert. The desert of colors. The desert of words." said Malevich. Presented as a mental map, "Desert" is made from photographs of rectangles painted on building walls, known as "buffs" in Russia. Their primary function is to hide undesirable words.

The images scroll to the rhythm of a tick-tock recorded in St. Petersburg, where they were also taken. During the Second World War, the streets were wired with loudspeakers to warn citizens of bombings. Between attacks, time was materialized by the ticking of the metronome, intended to appease the popu- lation. Today, this sound is regularly broad- cast for a short period of time to test the loudspeakers.

Desert

Hip hop 3

Balconing
a series of photocollages presenting isolated elements of modernist architecture.
Diverse material and size.

"Balconing", which is the act of jumping from a balcony into a pool, suggests here the idea of activating the fixed elements that appear in the images.


Installation views in different places:
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
Retramp gallery, Berlin
Element.a project, Berlin

Balconing

Artwork inspired from the pictorialist movement.

Walking Brutus

In "Secret Block", a tribute to Joseph Beuys, the audience take part in a group rite whose symbolic features bring out a magic, primordial, almost sacred quality. Various objects and materials are strewn about a space that resembles the inside of a cave. Through headphones the visitor is given instructions and information by which to interact with them. The idea of a hearth is conjured up by electric plates, while a voice-over speaking of real objects and imaginary sculptures triggers a vision of the invisible as the culmination of a process by which the senses are reconfigured.

Hannes Egger
Secret Block
different objects, headphones, audio track (sound design: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara) 09’46”
2018
Photo: Roberta Segata

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