What inspired you to create artwork and become an artist? (events, feelings, experiences, etc.)
My joys, my anxieties and my doubts.
What is your artistic background, the techniques and subjects you have experimented with to date?
Graduated from the Paris School of Photography in 2010. These thirteen years have evolved my technique, my outlook and my relationship with others.
What are the 3 aspects that differentiate you from other artists, making your work unique?
My name, my eyes and my madness.
What inspired you to create artwork and become an artist? (events, feelings, experiences, etc.)
Where does your inspiration come from?
From denunciation to sarcasm, from a social fact to an anecdote, from a dream to a reality.
What is your artistic approach? What visions, sensations or feelings do you want to evoke in the viewer?
An emotion, whether positive or negative.
What is the process of creating your works? Spontaneous or with a long preparatory process (technique, inspiration from art classics or other)?
There are no rules.
Do you use a particular working technique? if yes, can you explain it?
I like to work alone using myself as a Swiss army knife: photographer, model, makeup artist, stylist, set designer, stage manager: tiring but practical.
Are there any innovative aspects in your work? Can you tell us which ones?
You have to tell me !
Do you have a format or medium that you are most comfortable with? if yes, why ?
I like what is disproportionately big, to know why, I leave you the contact details of my psychologist.
Does your work lead you to travel to meet new collectors, for fairs or exhibitions? If so, what does it mean to you?
Yes, it enriches the breeding ground for my ideas and the relationship I have with my production.
How do you imagine the evolution of your work and your career as an artist in the future?
As long as I continue, I evolve.
What is the theme, style or technique of your latest artistic production?
Photomontage for the “Fake Me, I’m Not Here” series: putting together the real to create the fake.
Can you tell us about your most important exhibition experience?
It’s not necessarily the most important ones that have had the greatest impact on me.
I think of the exhibition of my series Fucking Perfect Life, I delighted in the reaction of couples to certain photographs. I witnessed petty score-settling and flagrant acts of machismo.
If you could create a famous work in the history of art, which one would you choose? And why ?
T1955-18; (1955), by H. Hartung. The truth of a cry through gesture.
If you could invite any famous artist (dead or alive) to dinner, who would it be? How would you suggest he spend the evening?
Text to Soulages to ask for Hartung's number. Propriety requires me to invite both.
Olimpia Gaia Martinelli
