Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle

How can we unlearn colonial domination? By thinking archipelagically, this project uses patchwork as a site of coexistence—where the stitch becomes an act of decolonial repair, weaving diverse entities, images and materials into renewed alliances.

While animals steadily disappear from their environments, they continue to inhabit the human imagination in the form of myths, traces, and representations. Within museum displays and taxidermy workshops, holy spaces and family albums, long-standing narratives reveal the complex and often dualistic relationships humans have built with otherness and the living world.
Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle [When We Look at the Stars Again] questions human–nonhuman relationships in Western patriarchal societies in the age of the Anthropocene—shaped by colonial logics of separation, control, extraction, and appropriation of life.

Through a range of forms including self-portraiture, staged images, collage, and patchwork, the project generates alternative imaginaries in which dreamlike elements, humor, and the absurd become potential sites of resistance. By engaging my own body through performative gestures, I unsettle established visual codes, exposing the underlying structures of power and domination that have become embedded in the Western collective imagination.

The patchwork becomes a site of coexistence where diversity finds refuge, where human and nonhuman, images and materials are held together. The act of stitching becomes both craft and radical metaphor: scars and fissures remain visible, signaling a refusal to erase the history of domination through the stitch as an act of care and decolonial repair. By maintaining the integrity of separate parts while weaving them into a collective whole, the work questions traditional power relationships and the colonial legacies of the photographic medium. 

Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle is an invitation to shift perspective and to think "archipelagically" from elsewhere. It calls for new ways of relating and caring—between animal bodies and female bodies—in an effort to imagine renewed, non-hierarchical alliances among companion species.