
Lezione di nuoto
(Swimming class)
Mixed media on paper
150cm x 225cm
2022
The research evolves around the idea of reenacting childhood memories and past traumas like in Antillia, but refers to a different problem.
Lezione di nuoto (2022) is shaped from on a specific childhood drawing, that at the time even won an important price and had a lot of recognition, but would nowdays be considered problematic.
The figures of the old one Lezione di nuoto from 2004 where under the the teachers insistence, au contraire of the current work, mostly “white" skinned and with over-all the same body shape. But even with all the restrictions of the time the figures acted playfully in the swimming pool, and that the current Lezione di nuoto (2022) intends to emphasise that hidden happiness, freshness and freedom typical of childhood.