Everyone deserves a future Digital illustrations, Milan, Italy 2022 Created in collaboration with photographer Giles Duley, in partnership with Emergency NGO and Ogilvy, this campaign was launched in Milan in 2022. The message, “Let’s make 2022 a year of peace, not war,” came to life through a public installation across 100 underground stations throughout the city. The campaign features powerful portraits of war victims by Giles ...

Walls of shame Installation, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 2022 Part of the exhibition "Dis/Integration", Curated by Alessandro Zuccari. "This installation is linked to the project I realized for the Baobab refugee camp of Rome in 2018. It represents my answer to all separation walls built around the world. Walls will not divide us, walls will not stop us, ...

Tahera Paste-up, acrylic and print on paper, 300 cm x 300 cm, Rome, Italy 2021 I met Tahera in Berlin in 2019, and I painted her portrait as part of my project "Exile" during my artistic residency at Urban Nation Museum. In 2021, I decided to paste her portrait in my hometown of Rome. Tahera comes from Herat, ...

A home worth living for Paste-up , Rome, Italy 2020 A Home Worth Living For portrays a young Palestinian woman, her face wrapped in a keffiyeh so that only her eyes remain visible. The image draws from a visual language often associated with resistance. The way the keffiyeh is wrapped recalls the young Palestinians who cover their faces while ...

Aria Curated by Nufactory, part of Art Stop Monti – Cavour Metro Station, Rome, Italy 2020. A project promoted by ATAC Roma, produced by Nufactory, and included in Roma Roma 2020, promoted by Roma Capitale in collaboration with SIAE. Aria is a reflection on the present, focusing on the idea of freedom of movement—the right to travel and cross borders without restrictions, bans, or limitations. For ...

Journey to Europe Paste-up, acrylic and print on paper, 300 cm x 400 cm, Turin, Italy 2017 For many people escaping war, persecution, or precarious living conditions, the journey to Europe begins with a crossing marked by risk and uncertainty. The life jacket, both a safeguard and a symbol of fragility, is worn by migrants as protection ...

Welcome to Europe Paste-up, acrylic and print on paper, 300 cm x 200 cm, Shoreditch, London, UK 2017 The sea stands as the final obstacle between despair and the fragile hope of safety. Since 2011, the war in Syria has forced more than four million people to flee their homeland, seeking refuge in neighboring countries such as Lebanon, ...

Eliab Curated by Journeys Festival International, ArtReach – Curve Theatre, Leicester, UK, 2019. Collaboration with Farhad Berahman. Photo: Rik Lee. Eliab was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and moved to the United Kingdom in November 2015. He first arrived in London before relocating to Leicester. He describes the experience as challenging: “It was scary in many ways, and my English wasn’t very ...

Milad Paste-up, 300 cm x 300 cm, Separation wall, Bethlehem, Palestine 2019 Portrait of Milad wearing the traditional black and white keffiyeh. The Palestinian keffiyeh is far more than a simple piece of fabric. It is neither tied to a specific religion nor reducible to the stereotypes often imposed upon it. Deeply rooted in Palestinian history and culture, ...

Journeys Acrylic and print on canvas, 400 cm x 300 cm, 300 cm x 200 cm, Rome, Italy 2017 Curated by Explora Museum. Promoted by Journeys Festival International, ArtReach and creative Europe. Photo: Luigi Narici

Ibrahim Mural, Paste-up - Acrylic and print on paper, 800 cm x 500 cm Curated by Yuka Blend Festival - Nicosia, Cyprus 2018. Ibrahim is from Niger. Years ago, his journey brought him from the city of Zinder to Italy. I met him in 2015 at Baobab refugee camp in Rome where we were helping and welcoming together ...

We can't breathe Paste-up, 1200 cm x 300 cm, Rome, Italy 2020 Photos: Valentino Bonacquisti George Floyd was killed on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis, United States, after a police officer knelt on his neck for over nine minutes while he was handcuffed and repeatedly saying that he could not breathe. His death became a global catalyst for ...

Walls of shame Site-Specific Installation at Baobab Migrant Camp, Rome, 2018 This installation was created directly on the fences of the Baobab migrant camp in Rome, a space defined by both physical and social boundaries. Hundreds of bird-shaped cutouts were attached to the fence from inside the camp, forming a dynamic, ever-changing pattern akin to a murmuration ...

Rooted Site-specific installations across Bethlehem, Beit Jala – Area C, Palestine, 2019. Collaboration and site-specific performances with Palestinian contemporary dancer Natalie Salsa. The idea for this installation was born during my first visit to the city of Bethlehem in the winter of 2018. After a few days, I became aware of the constant presence of wind across ...

One Face Nicosia , Cyprus 2017/2018 “We are beautifully different as two halves of a face and beautifully similar as a whole.” One Face was developed through multiple visits to Nicosia between 2017 and 2018, the last remaining divided capital city in the world. The project emerged from a desire to understand how two communities living on the ...

Bethlehem Astalli Center, Rome, Italy 2018 Portrait of Bethlehem from Eritrea. Mural intervention in the new shelter center for refugees and asylum seekers "Matteo Ricci". For over thirty years, the Astalli Center has been involved in many activities and services that are intended to accompany, serve and defend the rights of those who arrive in Italy fleeing ...

Between borders Paste-up, acrylic and print on paper, 600 cm x 300 cm, Turin, Italy 2017 In 2017, thousands of children were recorded crossing borders alone, without family protection or adult guardianship. According to UNICEF and UNHCR, unaccompanied and separated minors continued to represent one of the most vulnerable groups within global migration movements, with tens of thousands seeking asylum ...

Baobab | Rome, Italy 2015 Baobab Refugee Camp, 2015. A project promoted by Baobab Experience. In collaboration with Roberta Santelli. Photography: Roberta Santelli, Gian Luca Bertarelli. "Baobab" was a makeshift transit reception camp for migrants in Rome. The camp was created in april 2015 by a group of volunteers to provide shelter, clothing, food, support and ...