Italian artist based in Puglia. Since the mid-1990s in Bologna, he has been experimenting with various media in his work, ranging from photography to performance, installation to video. His works have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MamBo in Bologna, Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Fondazione Merz in Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea in Trento, MACRO in Rome, and the National Museum of Wrocław in Poland.

For cinema, he has directed documentaries presented at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Biennale Danza in Venice, Torino Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, London International Documentary Festival, Rome International Film Festival, Triennale di Milano, LAC Lugano, and Homo Novus festival in Riga. In 2018, he made his first fiction feature film, "Dei." From 2019 to 2020, he was the artistic director of Asolo Art Film Festival, the oldest festival dedicated to films about art. In 2020, he established the studio "Lamia Santolina" in Carovigno (BR), a space for study and research in contemporary creation that explores the ecosystemic relationships of the natural environment. As part of his artistic research, he carries out interventions in the garden, including the recovery and multiplication of endemic and Mediterranean basin plants resistant to drought, and the study of the fauna that inhabits it. The Lamia Santolina garden now boasts more than 500 varieties of plants.