I grew up in a small village where most of the people think that to be an artist you have to paint trees, mountains or landscapes, they don’t know what is contemporary art. In their opinion, if you draw with a cartoon style you are not an artist, but only an illustrator, and of course I totally disagree. So when I wrote that phrase it was an ironical way to emphasize that way of thinking.

I am proud to admit that I am the product of popular culture that absolute influenced my art. When I was a child I grew up with television, cartoons and comic strips. My favorite cartoons were the Japanese anime television series as Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac), Candy Candy and Fantazoo (the title in english should be Ox Tales). Instead, when I was a young girl my favourite cartoons were South Park and Futurama, I really liked The Itchy and Scratchy Show by Matt Groaning.

I’ve always drawn and I found my drawing style day by day. At the Academic of Fine Art, I already found my personal drawing style, of course raw and dirtier than it is now.

In my video works How to kill the artists, there is an encyclopaedia of the possible deaths of artists at the hands of their own practices or artworks. I exact my revenge on the art world; I take the art stars off their pedestals and remind us they are human. I choose artists who are at the top of the popular charts, so that sooner or later, for better or worse, I would be the only artist left alive on the earth. These include Kiki Smith, Banksy, Yoshitomo Nara, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Douglas Gordon... 

Working with other artists or creative people is always fun for me; teamwork has more potential, a lot of power; I would say stronger than just one person. I try to take all the energy possible from these collaborations. 

I enjoy very much when I can make site-specific installations or big murals, but in all works I make starts as a small drawing or a sketch. I made my first drawings in a small room where I could paint only small paintings because of the limited space available to me. Anyway, now I have a bigger studio where the space is multiplied so I can make big installations or large canvases, but these works take a long time, while the small works are faster and instinctive to me.

Through different media and tools of my generation – as wild sense of humor and the immediacy – I mock the icons of the art world, pop culture celebrities, contemporary heroes and even myself. I speak about real things even if they seem to be lies, truths made out of lies with images that we know. My language is a pure game; the recreational dimension totally melts with the images, leaving out the research of a final moral, allowing the public to lapse into sounds, gags, shapes. So my works are like a mash-up of all of my passions in life, from the Internet culture, movies, nature, food, video games and comics.

Art is free expression and a way for the artists to express their feelings and point of view. Censorship of the arts is restricting and putting us in chains. 

“Art is dead” is a reference to my series How to kill the artists, where I am the ‘virtual’ serial killer of the contemporary art. I use this phrase to ironize dramatically about the role of art today, especially in these turbulent times around us. It’s a joke. I play with art.