Our work focuses on phenomena related to perception and on the brain processes that allow us to retain the memory of our experiences, to perceive mental images, and, through them, to establish an ever-evolving reproduction of external reality.

We are fascinated by the duality between body and mind: an organic structure of flesh, defined and limited in space and time, that carries the mind around with it - a spontaneous phenomenon with no apparent boundaries, entirely free and self-referential.

We search for the boundaries of this immaterial space that inhabits the convolutions of the cerebral cortex, to understand if and where it might be possible to identify a point of contact that indissolubly binds the two domains, the material and the immaterial.

Complicating matters (or making them more fascinating) are the repeated announcements of "intelligent machines" with which we will soon find ourselves interacting: the body-mind duality is no longer confined exclusively to flesh, but could soon extend to artificial conscious entities made of plastic, metal, silicon and electrical states.

This is why we have begun to take an interest in the relationships between the natural and the artificial - how, for example, artificial entities are able to produce phenomena that we perceive as natural.

The recurring imagery in our work is made up of "mindscapes", distorted visions of nature with altered colours, as if trying to fix a kind of mental image onto the canvas. The human figure, with uncertain features, blurred and lacking definition, represents our immaterial part, while, as a counterpoint (the duality between body and mind), images of organic cells shot under the microscope represent the organic part.

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