Italian, art historian, researcher, and tour guide based in Madrid. I’m also Content Creator for ARTSVP and Curator of experimental and collective workshops.
I’m currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Theory at the Universidad Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
In 2024, I was invited for a research residency at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and in 2023 I received the First Prize for Young Art Criticism by AMCA.
Alongside guiding, I’ve worked in the art market, collaborating with galleries and collections in London, and I’m currently working with ARTSVP, the leading Art Fair & Event Management System, where I’m responsible for the digital content and the communication channels.
My Academic Work
My research explores how certain dichotomies are not natural categories but cultural constructions reinforced by dominant narratives. I focus on reclaiming the potential of what has traditionally been seen as “negative” , understanding absence, emptiness, failure, error, and precarity not as flaws, but as fertile spaces for resistance, imagination, and transformation.
PhD Research Lines
Art from Latin America – Latin American Networks (RedCSur) – Absence – Archives – Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies – Failure – Capitalist Malaises and Postmodernism – Precarity – Capitalism and Consumerism
Conferences, Residencies & Lectures
The role of gatekeepers in contemporary art. Mechanisms and influences underpinning changes of value
Conference
23-24 October. Invitation to II Jornadas Internacionales de Mercado del Arte, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid.
The Pollution of the Meaning: Thinking from Precariousness, Failure, and Absence Conference
Conference
13 October. Invitation to the Conference Hablarte 2025 organised by AMCA (Asociación Madrileña de Críticos de Arte) Madrid.
Voids in transmission: Rethinking art historiography through the archive
Conference
24-26 September. Invitation to the Conference: Traces, reflections and signs: dynamics of transmission, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italia.
What’s Left Unsaid: Voids of the Archive and the Curriculum Vitae
Conference
11 June 2025, Invitation to the Symposium “Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art”, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden.
Art from 1945 to the Present
Guest Lecturer
14 March and 13 May 2025, Art from 1945 to the Present, Bachelor’s Degree in Art History, Academic Year 2024-25, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Speaking “from there”... here: a problem of location
Seminar presentation
18 January 2024, Hablar “desde allí”… aquí: un problema de ubicación, Encuentros en la Quinta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Seminar series organised by PhD students of the Department of History of Art.
First AMCA Prize for Young Art Criticism 2023
Award
Winner of the first prize in the 3rd AMCA Prize for Young Art Criticism 2023 for the essay “The Contamination of Meaning. Cecilia Vicuña: Language and New Ways of Inhabiting Space.”
Anti-Curriculum Workshop
Workshop
Within the framework of research aimed at rethinking failure, carried out during the Connective Tissues residency program at the Reina Sofía Museum, “The Anti-Curriculum” proposes a critical and reflective exploration of the concept of failure in Western genealogies and in the neoliberal, capitalist, and competitive context in which we live.
Peer-reviewed Article In: Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. Tarsila do Amaral - Pioneer of Decolonial Thought.
Publication
The article highlights how Tarsila do Amaral’s contribution was crucial to an early approach to decolonization that used the notion of antropofagia to present the colonized in an act of ‘devouring’ the colonizer, assimilating certain aspects and discarding others to process and build new, independent identities.
ACTA#7 Fisuras - The New Madrid Figuration. A Case Study for Reflection on Art and the Market.pdf
Publication
Article published in May 2022 in issue number 7 of the Contemporary Art Journal ACTA, published as part of the Master’s Program in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture at the Complutense and Autonomous Universities of Madrid in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum.
Curatorial Project: Chronicles of a Discourse. The Juana Mordó Gallery in Post-Francoist Art
Curatorial project
June 24 – October 14, 2022
Space D, Library and Documentation Center, Reina Sofía Museum
Curated and produced as part of the Art Theory and Criticism track of the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Reina Sofía Museum.
