Born in Puglia in 1998 and raised within a Christian cult, Lilly’s early life unfolded inside the walls of her family home in Andria.
She studied to become a surveyor in high school before moving to Milan to attend NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), where she graduated cum laude as a visual artist and curator, only to change direction and return to her hometown.
Back in Puglia alone, a period of independence and experimentation led her to work as a design assistant in a renewable energy engineering firm.
she does not consider that time a distance from her artistic path, but an integral part of it. In July 2025, after three years, she chose to leave that profession as the need to suspend function and inhabit a form of expression incompatible with usefulness emerged.
Painting entered her practice quietly. An elusive quality runs through these works, often originating from her own photographs and self-portraits. Selfies that in turn originate from time spent observing oneself interacting with one’s own space, with new objects, with one’s own appearance, creating one’s own mythology.
She works primarily with acrylics and has turned her former bedroom into a studio containing only an easel and a treadmill.
STATEMENT:
MY BEHAVE WILL CUT MY LEGS . I DONT CARE ABOUT MY LEGGS I AM A MULTI LEGGED HAUSFRAU
I WILL LET SCIENTISTS IN WHERE I PORTRAY MYSELF LIKE YOU PORTRAYED ANIMALS IN THE CAVES . ITS SYMPATHETIC MAGIC: TO PAINT THE ANIMAL BEFORE THE HUNT TO POSSESS ITS SPIRIT.
SELFIES ARE YOUR TABOOBECAUSEYOUR EQUATION HAS BEEN CLEARED OF MEMORY. MY SELFIES ARE MY FARM. SAY THIS TO YOUR DISH SPONG EAND LET IT ALONE TO THINK.
WITNESS THIS PROCESS WITH ME AND OFFER THE CAMERA WHAT YOU COULD NEVER OFFER YOUR OWN EYES.
CHICCHIRICHI’SAID THE ROOSTER TO MY WORLD
MY INTEREST LIES IN THINGS THAT INTEREST ME WITHOUT PURPOSE OR INTEREST.WHAT HOLDS ME IS JUST FUN,
ORIGINATED IN THE LATE 17TH CENTURY, EVOLVING FROM THEMIDDLE ENGLISH VERB FONNEN “TO BE FOOLISH»: A STATUS OF STUPIDITY, FROM STUPERE, TO BE STUNNED,AMAZED, STUPEFIED.STUPERE IS ALSO THE ROOT OF “STUPOR” :A STATE OF BEING STRUCK SENSELESS, CONFOUNDED, ORPARALYZED BY SHOCK, AMAZEMENT, OR GRIEF, RATHER THANMERE PHYSICAL NUMBNESS.
IS THEREFORE THE STATE I AM MOSTLY IN,TERESTED, IN: STUPOR. I ALSO THINK ABOUT D’ANNUNZIO’S PANISM, THE VEGETALIZATION OF MAN AND THE ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION OF NATURE, WHERE THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND THE NATURAL DISSOLVE.
SEXY PER SE.
