BIO
I was born in Livorno, Italy. I hade lived in Vallemaio (IT), Florence (IT), Diego Suarez (MG), Mondovì (IT), New York City (US), Berlin (DE), Maremma (IT), Gallura (IT), Parc of Foreste Casentinesi (IT), Elba Island (IT), Mexico City (MX) and Prato (IT). I majored in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Florence after proposing a dissertation titled “I poeti della progressive [The Poets of Progressive]” and a second title “Il libello dagli stilnovisti ai rapper [The Pamphlet from Stilnovists to Rappers]”, both rejected, I graduated on “Nulla [Nothing].” A competitive soccer player since an early age, I take Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thought “The top scorer is always the best poet of the year” as a benchmark for my career. Therefore, I become a “top scorer poet”. From a young age, I start cooking in social centres, making a few forays into gourmet kitchens, trattorias, and farm cuisine. I clearly realize that the professional kitchens cooker hoods has the potential to suck away my soul along with the fumes, hence I imprint my life as an independent cook by attending barely equipped kitchens. When forced into professional kitchens, I plot to blow them up.
POETIC
The fields of research and application of my practice are mainly the convivium – understood as a device for the creation of relationships around the preparation and consumption of food in a given space-time – a given ecosystem – where every element, human and non-human, has a relational role in the fulfillment of a certain atmosphere. My experiences as an independent cook and my long- period staying in rural and mountain areas, long periods of silence and isolation, and animal tracking activities have shaped my practice of constantly renegotiating my identity with that of place, other and otherness.
I’m the creator of convivial events such as “Appendice d’artista” for co-creating atmospheres held at Villa Romana, Florence, from 2012 to 2022. Furthermore, I’m founder of the “Piano x 12” project – home space for conviviality and development of projects around the table; co-founder of the “cuicuocua” project, for which I produce useless objects and live performances.
CV
__solo and group exhibitions including:
Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. Villa Romana, Firenze. Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano. Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin. Base Milano. Chiostro in Azione, UniFi. Exhibitalia, Art Basel, Miami. ChorAsis lo spazio della visione, Prato. Italian institute of culture in Mexico City. Video Sound Art Festival, Milano, Osservatorio Sant’Anna, Venezia, Lungomare Bolzano, Mahalla Biennial Festival of Istanbul.
__performance and lecture including:
Laguna nel pozzo, convivium performance, curate by Matteo Binci, Maria Eugenia Frizzelle, Sabrina Morreale e Lorenzo Perri per Osservatorio Sant’Anna, Venezia, 2025.
L’ebbra, convivium performance, Pietraroja (BN), 2025.
Solar recipes Sunbar per Fiumicina, in collaboration with Tab_Zine, Lungomare Bolzano, Prati del Telvera (BZ).
Solar recipes per Fiumicina, in collaboration with Tab_Zine, Lungomare Bolzano, Predazzo (TN), 2025.
Super capsula, convivium performance, Base Milano, 2025.
cuicuocua tour #20, THE SOCK SHOW, performance, Long Lake Busker Festival, Lugano, 2024.
Il verme e il ragno, Chorasis lo spazio della visione, solo show curate by Matteo Binci, Villa Rospigliosi Prato, 2024.
Pop-Pop, performance, Spazio Art and People, San Sepolcro (AR), 2024.
Masala wine, convivium performance, Video Sound Art Festival, Brescia, 2023.
cuicuocua tour #19, The Others Art Fair, Torino, 2023.
cuicuocua tour #17, THEGAME gallery, Livorno, 2023.
Mele chiodate, installazione, performance, convivio, curated by Trascendanza, Archeologia Arborea, Città di Castello PG, 2023.
Forma de vida, convivio performance, curate by Matteo Binci, Italian institute of culture in Mexico City, 2022.
La macchina dei forni, convivio performance, Villa Lais, Viterbo, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #11, Tab Zine, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #10, Miracolo a Livorno, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #9, Premio Rotonda, Livorno, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #8, Tafuzzi Festival, Riccione, 2022.
Salve! Convivio performance, Traffic Festival, curate by Matteo Binci, (PU), 2022.
Vacuum. Non mortificarti. Appendice d’artista #10, convivio, atmosphere, Villa Romana Firenze 2022.
cuicuocua tour #7, Traffic Festival, PU, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #4, Open Studios, Villa Romana Firenze, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #6, spazio abusivo, Livorno, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #5, 70 mq architecture, Livorno, 2022.
cuicuocua tour #3, Merce Marcia, Livorno, 2021.
cuicuocua tour #2, Accademia Belle Arti, Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, 2021.
cuicuocua tour #1, Moo_26, Prato,2021.
#thanksforsmelling, performance, Balon border, Torino, 2021.
If It’s For The People, It Needs To Be Beautiful, She Said, dance performance with and for Jeremiah Day, Villa Romana Firenze, 2021.
cooking a place, On Air, convivio performance, curate by Massimo Ricciardo, Montenero (LI), 2019.
Ventre e fuoco. Convivio performance, curate by Matteo Binci, Traffic Festival, PU, 2019.
cooking a place, On Air, convivio performance, curate by Massimo Ricciardo, Casentino (AR), 2019.
There are several different houses, dance performance with and for Jeremiah Day, PARC performance art research centre, Firenze, 2021.
Detrito, lecture performance, “Arte e design. Al confine tra opera e oggetto”, curated by Francesca Tosi and Giacomo Bazzani, Designe Campus Firenze, 2019.
Focolaio, lecture performance with Andrea Calzolari, Villa Romana Firenze, 2019.
Gli assi cartesiani il fuoco, Appendice d’artista #9, convivio performance (in dialogue with work of Uriel Orlow), Villa Romana Firenze, 2019.
L’anima dell’umanità, Appendice d’artista #8, convivio performance, (in dialogue with work of Massimo Ricciardo) Encounters: Handling placing and looking at photographs in relation to migration, project by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in collaboration with Villa Romana, Firenze, 2017.
Ricavato, convivio performance, curated by Tommaso Evangelista, Sponzart, Calitri (AV), 2017.
Pervaso, Appendice d’artista #7, convivio performance, (in dialogue with work of Yann Monel), Villa Romana Firenze, 2016.
Hope, pubblic performance, on path border Grimaldi (It) and Mentòn (Fr), 2015.
Clandestino, performance, Ventimiglia – Menton, 2015.
Madre coraggio degli innocenti, Appendice d’artista #6, convivio performance, (in dialogue with work of Gulsun Karamustafa), Villa Romana Firenze, 2014.
What have you done concretely for your freedom?, Appendice d’artista #5, convivio performance, (in dialogue with work of Juan Pablo Macias), Villa Romana Firenze, 2014.
In odor di brigantaggio, convivium performance, curated by Federico Bacci and Lucia Giardino, Guilmi Art Project (GAP), Guilmi (CH), 2014.
Paesaggio geotermico, “Appendice d’artista” #4, convivio performance, (in dialogue with work of Mikhail Karikis), Villa Romana, Firenze, 2014.
Still life vs. natura morta, Appendice d’artista #3, convivium performance, (in dialogue with work of Martino Chiti), Villa Romana Firenze, 2012.
Appendice d’Artista, #2, convivio performance (in dialogue with work of Aglaia Konrad, Willem Oorebeek), Villa Romana Firenze, 2012.
Appendice d’Artista, Appendice d’artista #1, convivio performance (in dialogue with work of Ketty La Rocca), Villa Romana Firenze, 2012.
__film festivals and pubblications including:
Kinotavr, Sochi; Fabbrica Europa, Firenze; Mahalla Biennial Festival of Istanbul; Aquila Film Festival; Lucania Film Festival; Queer Festival, Firenze; censure, Istituto Stensen, Firenze; Cyborg Festival, Anghiari (Ar); Siracusa Film Festival; VideoPuntoZero, Torino; Videoart Yearbook, Bologna, Frequenze esibite, Isernia; Corti in Libreria, Edizioni Mir; MUV music and digital art festival; GRAVITY FOR ALL, @villaromana.org.
_art residences including:
Traffic Festival delle anime gentili, S. Lorenzo in Campo (PU). Sponz festival, Calitri (AV). Guilmi Art Project,(CH). Cantiere Toscana, @ La Casa di Gello Agrabah, Pistoia. Contro Caretta della Speranza, Pantelleria (TP). Archeologia Arborea, Città di Castello PG. Italian institute of culture in Mexico City.
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