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 something many can relate to, whether or not they keep physical things.

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. The composition becomes the culmination of my relationship with each object, transforming personal rituals into something shared and communicable.

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)
Collection of my childhood musicassettes
1989 - 1998
Rome

Shoes (a; b)
Collection of my shoes, sandals and slippers
201X - 2022
Rome - New York - Cairo

Box n. 22/36 (b)
Chocolate wrapping
New York
2020

Cigarettes
Collection of my empty packs of cigarettes
201X - 2013
Rome

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

Deciduous teeth (a1)
Deciduous tooth - ¼ - 198X - 199X
2019
Rome

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

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

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

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

Box 002 (a)
Collection of cup lids
2022
New York

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

Wrapper (a)
Box 001 (a) ½ - Candies wrappers
2022
New York

Bottle Cup (a)
Box 003 (a) - Beers
2022
New York

Solar Flares
Box 003 (a) - Beers
2022
New York