Lost in the Paradise

Lost in the Paradise is a project about love and trying to find your place in the world.

Lost in the Paradise is a project about love and trying to find your place in the world. I’ve lived 8 of the last 10 years outside of my home country. In that same period, I’ve lived in 3 different countries and 6 different houses.

As a migrant artist, my work is deeply informed by the experiences of cultural loss and the search for a sense of territory in an unfamiliar land. I seek to explore the complex emotions and challenges that arise from leaving behind the culture, traditions, and landscapes that have shaped my identity, and the struggle to adapt to a new environment. My work is an attempt to reconstruct a sense of place and belonging in a context of displacement, to reclaim and re-imagine the memories and landscapes that have been left behind, and to create new connections and dialogues with the new environments that surround me.

The images in this project are an exploration of the emotional territory of home, a place that is both physical and psychological, a site of memory and attachment that shapes our sense of identity and belonging. I want to reflect on the power of home to evoke feelings of comfort, security, and nostalgia, as well as its ability to inspire feelings of displacement, loss, and longing. Present in this work are abstract interpretations of the building blocks of a house: the founding stones, the tools to build, the different gardens and nature seen in the different spaces we’ve inhabited so far in contrast with the melancholy of not belonging in any specific place, of being in constant movement. In a period of such big personal changes and a perennial feeling of placelessness, the only constant in all this time is Paula, always by my side. For me it is clear that home is not a place, it’s wherever I’m with her.