THROUGH THE MIRROR
Featured in Anatomy Rocks (Cernunnos), alongside Damien Hirst and Mark Ryden · Exhibited at PAN — Palazzo delle Arti Napoli · An Iconic View of White (Porsche Design × Vogue Italia) · Video-projected at PhotoVogue Festival, BASE Milano · Featured on the Vogue.it homepage · Multiple PhotoVogue selections.
Through the Mirror stages the collision of sweetness and mortality in meticulously symmetrical assemblages, altars built from candy, artificial flowers, anatomical models, and toys salvaged from flea markets. Drawing on the visual language of cabinets of curiosities, vanitas painting, and scientific illustration, the series treats discarded objects as reliquaries: forms whose original purpose has expired, and whose second life carries the memory of the first. What appears as ornament is, on closer reading, an inventory of appetite, devotion, and decay. Each image rewards slow looking: every assemblage conceals its own small narrative, told through details that surface only at second glance.
Each work begins as a physical assemblage, flowers, toys, bones, candy, and found objects composed by hand into a symmetrical altar, then photographed. Once the image is made, the assemblage is dismantled and its objects returned to their boxes. The photograph is the only proof that the sculpture ever existed. In this way the work performs its own subject: beauty is built, recorded, and undone, a still life that is, quite literally, a life that does not last.
Silence of the Lambs, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A single cut of meat is worshipped on a gilded altar, while the herd circles endlessly around it. Adoration and slaughter on the same assembly line, the animal born, again and again, only to be devoured.
Featured in Anatomy Rocks (Cernunnos)
Death of a Forest Fairy, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A fairy lies dead in the woods, her small body sinking into the soil while the garden keeps blooming above her. Every fairy tale flowers on top of the part it refuses to tell.
Secret Garden, 2018
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A skeleton rests in a bed of white roses, a single eye opening where the belly should be. The garden keeps its secret the way the body does, beauty grown over the place where something watches back.
White Dream, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A skull crowned in white lilies and chrysanthemums, screaming softly from within the bouquet, purity staged as a funeral, beauty and death sharing the same white breath.
An Iconic View of White (Porsche Design × Vogue Italia, 2014)
Lost in BunnyLand, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Someone wandered into an enchanted place, took an egg that was never theirs, and never walked out again. What the story sells as wonder, it charges for as trespass.
Featured in Anatomy Rocks (Cernunnos)
Gluttony, 2013
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A body surrounded by sweets, the oldest sin in its sweetest disguise. We know the sugar is killing us, and we reach for it anyway.
The Kids Nightmare, 2013
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Under the tinsel, Santa is already dead. Strip the holiday of everything else and one ritual survives him: the wanting, the buying, the bottomless need to spend.
Soul Mates, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Two skulls bound inside a heart of blossom and candy, butterflies in the stomach, Cupid's promise read to its literal end: till death do us part.
Lost Paradise, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A dinosaur's skull rests among orchids and butterflies, a predator turned to décor. Every paradise is built on an extinction we have already chosen to forget.
Magical Ingredients, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A witch's cabinet caught mid-spell: candy, insects and specimens sealed in jars, a lizard swinging from a lace-cuffed hand. The sweetness only makes you forget to ask what she is brewing.
Ex Voto, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A votive offering framed in marshmallow: a prayer to keep the vision and inspiration of the one who makes images.
Haunted Mansion, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
The house itself is alive, watching from a ceramic face, it sits sweetly on acid-green grass and dares you to step inside.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
The house itself is alive, watching from a ceramic face, it sits sweetly on acid-green grass and dares you to step inside.
Inside Me, 2014
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta
A self-portrait with no face. Behind a curtain of hair, a cabinet holds my passions, my fears, the small obsessions that assemble a person, and the word that names them, spelled in blocks: pop surrealism.