Drawings
Her paintings, often composed with oil pastels and layered textures, oscillate between chaos and stillness. They do not seek resolution; instead, they insist on presence. There is no plan, only listening - to gesture, to color, to what wants to emerge in that moment. Her forms echo unconscious landscapes, inner architectures, and sometimes, hybrid creatures that inhabit a dreamlike threshold between the personal and the archetypal.
This is not abstraction as style — it is abstraction as survival. As meditation. As a deep, ritualized practice of healing. Each piece becomes a container for vulnerability, a negotiation between control and surrender.
Her work invites us to witness this fragile tension - not as spectators, but as cohabitants of the same inner terrain.
Le Gusa Baje
The title draws from the secret code once used by the hemp workers od Crissolo, a village at the foot of Monviso. The exhibition began in two ground floor rooms and continued upward through the building’s old fire station tower, now a private loft. This vertical, meandering path was conceived to disorient, echoing the show’s exploration of instinct, ambiguity, and the invisible threads that connect the artists’s work.
Photography by Alexia Colombo
“Le Gusa Baje evokes an ancient sound, a forgotten dialect, the secret code of the hemp workers from Crissolo, a village nestled at the foot of Monviso. In this collective exhibition, eleven artists engage in a silent dialogue, recognizing one another through an intangible reflection: the nocturnal shimmer in the eyes of the Gusa, the wolf. Here, no manifesto or single vision prevails; the thread linking these artists is subterranean. Like a silent, almost instinctual call, the works reveal themselves ambiguously, denying the ease of coherence.
Baje suggests a glimmer, perhaps intuition to pursue or a fleeting mirage, a lapse where a word fails its conscious intent. The exhibition journey began on the ground floor, then proceeds in the opposite direction, toward a tower that rises to the third floor, once the heart of Porta Palazzo's old fire station, now a private loft, an exclusive enclave.
This wandering path was designed to evoke a sense of disorientation in the visitor.”
In 2024, she curated the group exhibition Le Gusa Baje at Combo Torino, selecting eleven artists and designing a site-specific path that unfolded vertically through the building's former fire tower. The project explored instinct, ambiguity, and the invisible threads connecting the artists' works.
She also founded Itaca Storie, a temporary cultural space in Calabria designed as a free and open gathering place, hosting independent publishing, archival garments, vinyl records, and collective listening.