Moving across drawing, text, painting, sculpture, performance and video, Formica's performative body of work reflects on the essence of transitory life and the identities dealing with it. Through minimal and conceptual gestures focusing on lightness, subtlety and poetry, identity is portrayed in its escaping real dimensions departing from the transformation of the body-mind and its immediate surrounding.
Techniques and materials from the domestic environment mix in the artist studio: painting, dancing, tailoring and video-recording are combined with memorabilia, furniture, clothing, domestic appliances and ephemera.
Using the body, its memories, streams of consciousness and fantasies, the work results in vanishing visions, handwritten visual poems and recognizable objects produced from direct contemplations, emotions or longed for, unattained and impossible desires placed in a soft ecstatic clash with the mythical-ordinary aspects of life.
Through the practice each piece enters in a conversation as a diary-like constellation and fragmentary mapping of the artist own vulnerable, in-between and disarticulating body.
Personal contact: danieleformica96@gmail.com