Welcome to my laboratory! I envisioned it as a space for real and imagined dialogues, and I'm delighted you're here. Feel free to make yourself at home, like a guest in a dear friend's studio, ready to explore. Please, return as often as curiosity calls.
My two big topics are arts and communities. I am fascinated to understand how they communicate and influence each other. The way they change and the way they change us. I am interested in the intersections of disciplines and worlds, where realities and truths differ from those that emerge when we view things from a single perspective.
I am an artist, an anthropologist, and a consultant. The three dimensions interact and feed each other.
My passion is rooted in how dialogue and creativity cultivate trust, transforming cities, neighbourhoods, and villages into true communities – into better homes for all. Through my writing and the projects I engage in, I strive to build bridges between individuals and organisations committed to the common good. I also hope to inspire women everywhere to (re)claim and manifest their voice and power, a journey I’ve been on myself for a long time.
I’m weaving colourful threads into the social fabric.
Vision
To foster strong and friendly communities, where people take the time to listen to each other and let their stories create bridges and bring healing.
Mission
Inspiring people to connect with themselves, with other people, and everything around them, in order to gain strength and confidence to change what they need to change in their own lives and in the lives of their communities.
Freedom: The courage to be authentically oneself, and to inspire the same boundless self-expression in others.
Understanding: A deep curiosity for the human experience and the intricate tapestry of our world, driven by a desire to bridge perspectives and foster empathy, through listening and dialogue.
Abundance: Embracing the rich mosaic of inner wisdom, diverse cultures, and multifaceted perspectives as an endless source of inspiration and growth.
Healing: Recognizing healing as a profound act of self-love and a vital gift to the community.
Societatea Hydra
Societatea Hydra
Simple communication
We try to tell stories that everyone can relate to, in ways that we can all understand. We believe that no story is less important than another. Through art, we want to build bridges, not walls. Art is not a territory of big, intimidating words, but a place of gentle negotiations, where we can all find answers to things that concern us. It’s a meeting space where it’s vital to be able to laugh and cry together.
Hydra Society is a cultural organism with many heads promoting contemporary creation and a collaborative spirit. Since 2006, Hydra Society has created connections between people and disciplines, by hosting performances, exhibitions and learning events.
Respect
The artistic process is as important as the artistic experience offered to the audience. For this process to be fair, each person who participates must find a role in which they feel seen, heard, and respected. A show, a film, or a painting loses its value if those who created it did so by despising or belittling other people in the name of art.
Multiple perspectives
We investigate the past and present, searching for stories that prevent people from imagining a better future for themselves and the places where they live. We listen and document these stories. Then we look at things from multiple perspectives, bringing together different types of knowledge and ways of looking at the world. Finally, we bring people together and respond to these stories, activating all the senses in search of new meanings. We see art as a vehicle that can contribute to personal healing, but also to the healing of collective trauma.
The audience is always at the center
We invite people of all ages and all backgrounds to participate and contribute to our projects. We seek a shared sense of belonging, nurturing spaces where the idea of a greater good can take root and flourish. Art tames complex emotions and generates a type of understanding and empathy that is otherwise difficult to achieve. Art gives us the strength to act together.
The power of collaboration
The most powerful projects are born at the intersection of multiple minds. We see a project as being more relevant if more people participate in it, bringing different experiences and visions. Magic is born where visions – often conflicting – manage to harmonize. Art forms communities where artists and audiences can contribute, finding meaning and joy.
The "snowball" effect
Each project is for us a seed, an idea that can grow, inspire, and spread, creating a "snowball" effect that expands the positive impact in the community. What we learn in our creative processes, we share with others.
