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I currently work investigating ecosystems of signs and colour strategies. I prepare the funds by myself, on recycled material and I nourish my visions of unexpected landscapes. I am interested in the wild (=selvatico; in Italian there is a sensible nuance of meaning between “selvatico” and “selvaggio”) in general, for its decipherable complexity, for being a permeable area between civilization and nature and because it is relegated to the margins, therefore lively and dynamic: the uncultivated is sublime perfection in chaos.

Montagne indiane mai viste, oil on canvas, 65×50 cm, 2020

Irene Favalli painting

Maintaining the mobility of the imagination is an exercise in resistance because it is “the useless that saves the mind when all is lost” (Meschiari). Debi’s plan, during the 80’s, was to go to India with a friend to grow coca in the mountains. She never went, but she told me about it.