I am a curator, writer and lecturer based in Milan. Born in Genoa and raised in Canada, I moved back to Italy when I was ten. I attained a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Political Sciences from the University of Milan and a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies from the École du Magasin, Grenoble (France). Since then, I have been Exhibition Coordinator at P.S.1 The Institute for Contemporary Art (today MoMA/PS1), LIC, New York (US); Chief Curator at MAGASIN, CNAC-Centre national d’art contemporain in Grenoble (France); Associate Curator at Museo del Novecento in Milan (Italy); Artistic Director of Villa Reale di Monza (Italy). I have curated and coordinated over fifty exhibitions and contributed texts and essays to numerous art magazines, monographs and exhibition catalogues. I recently attained a second Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Historical Sciences with a thesis on Fashion Satirical Prints in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I am a Senior Lecturer of Semiotics, Cultural Anthropology, History of Art & Costume in the BA and MA Degree Program in Fashion Design (Italian and English Course) at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milano and Lecturer of English for Art Communication in the Master Program in Costume Design at AFOL Moda, Milano.
As an English Editor, I collaborate with publishers Allemandi and Silvana Editoriale and is a member of ICOM, International Council of Museums.
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To me, writing, curating exhibitions, and teaching are all means of communicating ideas that are worth investigating and appreciating through their aesthetic outputs. Of all art forms, today fashion is undoubtedly one of the most inclusive and cross-disciplinary, a laboratory where one can continuously break the rules and experiment with new ideas. By questioning and reshaping the body, fashion questions and reshapes society. Eventually, fashion is a way of channeling dreams. Expanding one’s knowledge, transmitting it to others and dreaming of creating beautiful and meaningful things that change the way we think is what I have always been looking for since,
to put it in Ennio Flaiano’s words, “Who refuses to dream is left masturbating with reality.”
