Over the last three years, my work has focused on architecture and 
urbanity, religion and politics.

There is an element of illusion in each of my projects, as I often 
notice that things might not always appear as they seem…

Polit(t)ico, a pun between the two words political and polyp-diptych, 
takes as its subject political and religious power.

The polyp-diptych, a typical Catholic architectural structure, is 
overlain with an Islamic geometrical pattern.

Medieval and early renaissance polyp-diptychs typically represented 
the hierarchical pyramid of personages; in this work the frame 
becomes a container of the Islamic microcosmical interpretation of 
God and the Christian hierarchical system of sanctity, underlining 
an intermixing of religious and political interests.

Sanpietrino (typical roman stone used for pavement and reference to 
the basilica of St. Peter) is a large-scale painting about the Roman 
Basilica. I have taken the architectural outline of the church, the 
symbol of Catholic power and religion in Rome, and drawn two invented 
Islamic patterns inside to fill the space.

Like Polit(t)ico, I have merged references to two religions and the 
perceived power behind them.

In I.N.R.I. (pejorative inscription on Christ’s cross) I shifted 
from the architectural element to the icon, the symbol par excellence
of Christianity. For the first time I used a stamp instead than the 
brush as tool in order to resemble a patterned fabric.