Moving across drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and video, Formica's 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 reality departing from the transformation of the body-mind and its immediate surrounding.
The practice brings together techniques and materials from the domestic environment and the artist studio: painting, dancing, tailoring and video-recording are combined with memorabilia, furniture, clothing and ephemera.
Using the body, its memories, streams of consciousness and fantasies, the work results in vanishing visions, handwritten visual poems and recognizable objects directly connecting to human contemplations, emotions or longed for, unattained and impossible desires placed in a soft ecstatic clash with the ordinary aspects of the world.
Through the practice each piece enters in a conversation as a diary-like constellation and mapping of the artist own vulnerable reflections situated in-between imprisoning mediocrity and liberating marvel.
Personal contact: danieleformica96@gmail.com