Spoglie (Spoils) is a project that explores the relationship between body, memory, and land through two connected bodies of work: the “spoglie” on transparent veils and the “studies” on paper.
The Spoils originated during the performance Funeral Rite to the Earth. The artist arranges tangles of human hair on thin transparent fabrics, shaping outlines of islands or continents. Once dried, the organic matter adheres to the surface like a trace or a skin. The veils are then suspended, revealing both the material density and the symbolic tension of the surface — presence and absence, loss and persistence. These forms become remains, relics of both Earth and body, symbols of a transformation that continues beyond the end.
The studies, created in parallel, offer a more intimate and analytical reflection on the dialogue between organic and geographic sign. In these works, the artist overlays hair on fragments of geographical maps, intertwining the irregular flow of the strands with the rigid lines of roads, rivers, and coasts. A play of scales emerges — between the micro and the macro, the human and the terrestrial — where natural gesture and artificial mapping converge into new emotional geographies.
In both series, hair assumes a ritual and vital role: it is a material that resists decay, a thread of continuity between life and death, and at the same time a root and a relic, a living memory of the body that re-emerges as an act of resistance and a testament to the human passage upon the Earth.
