RESILIENCE

Resilience was born at a moment when my work felt the need to shift: no longer simply to represent, but to remain on thresholds, on cracks. On those points of fracture where something has broken, and yet precisely there begins to transform.

This series draws inspiration from Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics by making the fractures visible, tracing them with gold. Not as ornament, but as an act of truth. Kintsugi does not return the object to what it was; it accompanies it into a new form of existence. Perhaps more fragile, but also more conscious, more essential, more alive.

In my work, Kintsugi becomes an inner language. Fractures are not only matter: they are memory, passages, crossings. They are the points where identity cracks, where images become unstable, where the surface no longer protects but allows something to filter through.

In Resilience I do not try to “fix” what is broken. I choose to listen to it. To remain in that zone where the wound is not yet closed and yet is no longer only pain: it is space, it is opening, it is possibility. I accompany its transformation, and the silent strength that emerges from it.
The golden traces, the dark fields, the visual sutures are not born as ornament, but to give voice to something that has happened. To make visible the point where something has taken shape again.

These works speak of a silent resilience, not a heroic one. A resilience that does not coincide with strength, but with the capacity to let oneself be crossed, to accept transformation. In this sense, Resilience is for me an intimate series: it arises from a deep feeling, also shaped by what happens around us, what crosses us, what overwhelms us. In a universal space, cracks thus become a shared language.

Because what breaks is not lost.
It changes form. And it continues to breathe.