Therapy

I am a collector.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve gathered and preserved things: objects, traces, fragments of daily life. What began as a personal archive of notebooks, cans, toys, receipts, even teeth and hair, eventually revealed something more universal: our shared impulse to hold on to what shapes us, to give form to memory through material things.

Cataloguing objects has always been a source of comfort and fascination. It started with items tied to emotion and experience, and gradually expanded into the systematic gathering of ordinary objects, repeating forms that build their own visual rhythm. This instinct to collect reflects a desire for order, continuity and meaning.

Photography became a natural extension of this impulse. By turning objects into images, I create a second layer of memory: a space where the physical and the symbolic meet. Through photography, personal rituals take on a visual form that can be shared beyond their original context.

Therapy explores this process. It uses photography not just as documentation, but as a way to understand the emotional structures behind collecting: how we categorize, preserve, and make sense of the world, and of time itself, through the things we choose to keep close.

Musicassettes (a)
My childhood musicassettes
1989 – 1998
Rome

Shoes (a; b)
My shoes, sandals and slippers
201X – 2022
Rome / New York / Cairo

Chocolate Wrapper (b)
Box 22/36 – Kinder Bueno wrappers
2020
New York

Cigarettes (001)
My empty packs of cigarettes
201X – 2013
Rome

Matches (a)
Matches used for my last pack of cigarettes
December 23rd 2013
Rome

Deciduous Tooth (001)
Photoceramic print – 198X–199X
2019
Rome

Skin (004)
Finger print n. 4
2021
New York

Organic (001)
Sample of my hair, beard and nails
2020
New York

Hair (a)
Samples from different cuts
2013 – 2019
Rome / Cairo / New York

Pubic Hair (a001)
My first white pubic hair
May 15, 2019
New York

24 Boxes (a)
24 boxes for 24 collections – Closed
2022
New York

Box 002 (a) – Closed
Cup lids (white)
2022
New York

Coffee (a)
Box 002 (a) – Cup lids (white)
2022
New York

Coffee (a001)
Box 002 (a) – Cup lids (white)
2022
New York

Candy Wrapper (a)
Box 001 (a) – Halls candy wrappers
2022
New York

Candy Wrapper (a001)
Box 001 (a) – Halls candy wrappers
2022
New York

Bottle Cap (a)
Box 003 (a) – Beer bottle caps
2022
New York

Solar Flares
Box 003 (a) – Beer bottle caps
Video, 54 sec
2022
New York

Fatherhood
2,243 diapers
Every diaper my son used during his first year.
Video, 5 min 8 sec
March 30, 2023 – March 29, 2024
United States / Italy / Switzerland / Mexico