Amelia Tavella

» The Mediterranean is my matrix. I come from there, that unique place. A child of the maquis, this is where I learnt the complexity of my trade as an architect. Sea, rock, my femininity embraced the femininity of that sea, working with delicacy, reweaving damaged lace, drawing inspiration from the sediments, the primal soft matter. My island taught me light, color, slope, constantly reminding me that there can be no valid creation without ethics and that history is the cradle of the present « .