Cartography of Soft Steps
Cartography of Soft Steps, wearable brass sculptures activated through performance (2025)
While traditional hiking gear is designed for endurance and performance, 'Cartography of Soft Steps' explores a more poetic relationship with tools for movement and navigation. Carried on and with the body, the brass pieces inhabit a space between sculpture and equipment.
Picking a flower - Carrying a rock - Ringing a bell.
Activated through choreographic gestures, they shift the romanticized narrative of hiking as heroic and efficient toward walking as an act of attunement - rooted in gesture, sensitivity, and intimate encounters with alpine landscapes.
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In Abito: Choreography of a Folded Space
In Abito: Choreography of a Folded Space, metal + textile scenography, activated by Claudia C. Fiore, performed at United Cowboys NL (2025)
The everyday act of opening and closing curtains creates a hybrid connection between body and fabric, as each becomes an extension of the other’s expressive potential. In 'In Abito', this gesture is transformed into a tool of agency: the curtains are reclaimed instruments of exposure and closure, reappropriated after a stalking experience, challenging patriarchal dynamics that dictate who may look and who must hide.
The textiles used - lining, typically found inside suits - blur the boundary between body, clothing, and space. By merging this “second skin” of clothing with the curtain as a “third skin,” the installation activates a dialogue between personal and architectural intimacies, embedding the body within the spatial fabric it moves through.
The work further explores this relationship through performance and theatrical research, examining the physical and spatial framework. The scenographic installation is designed to be activated by a performing body, engaging with tensions of concealment and exposure, identity, and safety. The performer interacts with the scenography from all sides, while the audience surrounds the installation and is free to move closer or step back. No viewer can see every side of the performance at the same time, creating a constantly shifting perspective on presence and observation.
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Of Bells and Pockets
Of Bells and Pockets, In collaboration with TextielMuseum + TextielLab Tilburg (2025)
Of Bells and Pockets explores the question of where and how memory resides. In a process-driven dialogue between material and meaning, knitted textiles - produced with TextielLab Tilburg - were combined with needle felt, wet felt, and metal.
A ringing bell - the bell of the fool - leads to the soft house we might carry within us. In the many pockets of this little house rest memories, guarded by a furry creature and the fool - felted figures who serve as gentle keepers of all that we cannot leave behind.
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Blue Apron
Blue Apron, performed during Traditions in Transition - LanaLive (2024)
By using blue aprons (which are traditionally worn by farmers in South Tyrol) as tools of modification, the act of dressing gets instrumentalised thus inviting reflection on clothing, its tradition and change.
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Tear Tool
Tear Tool, Brass (2022)
A conceptual ring designed to catch tears. It preserves the fleeting moment when a tear gently runs down the skin and departs from the body. The movement of the tear is conserved: a gesture of release, captured as a physical trace.
A falling tear reveals the radical power of sensitivity and emotional presence.