Lui, Iddu unfolds as a four-year contemplative exploration of masculinity, shaped by the socio-environmental context of a remote volcanic island. The slow-paced narrative centers on young fishermen whose lives still carry the echoes of a past shaped by tradition: silence passed from fathers to sons, duty hardened into endurance, tenderness displaced by control.

Through the artist’s female gaze - one that holds deep admiration and empathy for the fishermen’s everyday, sacred duty - she proposes a possibility for change: that resilience might also be found in vulnerability that listens, that nurtures, that dares to feel. Through this consciously sensitive approach, these young men who are portrayed in moments of softness, gradually begin to stand in contrast with their surroundings - still shaped by the island, yet no longer entirely bound to its demanding beauty and the hardness tradition carved into its people. The sharp rocks, the restless winds, the volcano that ceaselessly rumbles become mirrors of both constraint and renewal.

Born from within the emotion itself and shaped by a deeply personal vision, this work is a layered reflection on inheritance and transformation. It asks how masculinity might evolve when patterns of emotional neglect, domination, and silence begin to fracture - and whether awareness itself can become an act of healing. In this unfolding dialogue between inner and outer landscapes, Lui, Iddu ponders what it means to live with wounds that are not entirely our own, wounds that still shape the lives of these young men, quiet yet persistent, repeating themselves when left unspoken - until awareness turns repetition into understanding.

Stromboli, 2020 - 2024