Deimatico

Every artistic work is always autobiographical, however, never as in this case I have made myself manifest in the eyes of others. In this project, for the first time, I had an inescapable need: I had to be the animal at the center of my work. The idea behind this work had been ready for years, waiting in the pages of the book. for years, waiting in the pages of a notebook, but only when I realized I was no longer afraid to show myself vulnerable fear of showing myself vulnerable, it became concrete.
Deimatico is a project about fear. In the animal kingdom, deimatic behavior is in fact a display of threat aimed at scaring, intimidating or even just distracting its predators. They extend their thorns not in offense but in defense.
The work, through 6 photographic shots, tells the different layers of this urgency: the need for protection, the desire to become an animal, the aggressiveness aimed at its own preservation, the camouflaged insecurity. Finally, a real skin, with all its thorns still attached, tells us about uncovering and exposing ourselves, about removing the layer of thorns and fears in order to live with our fragile and corruptible body.
What we do not see is the intermediate phase of the two narratives, the Ecdysis, that is, the process of the moult in which the old skin is shed following an enormous physical and emotional effort. We are not required to see this mysterious evolution; it can only be imagined. What remains is an empty form that bears witness to the outcome of the metamorphosis.

Questo progetto è stato realizzato in collaborazione con il fotografo Massimiliano Camellini.