SIDRA

Can you tell us about the work and your feelings after winning such a prestigious award?

Donna con burca wants to be a message of hope and strength. She describes women who are unable to express themselves, their abilities, their intelligence, their dreams and their imagination. They are women who, however, with their pain teach us strength. Women who bend but do not break, women who carry on with dignity, day after day. They are hidden women, or rather, women who are hidden by those who are afraid of comparing themselves as equals, of looking them in the eye.

The feeling I get after winning such a prestigious award is first and foremost that of disbelief. Every time I think about it I say "I don't believe it" and smile. This award, which arrived in a particular period of my life, was an incentive to go forward and to understand with joy that my pictorial expression is able to reach people directly.

What is painting for you?

It is a complete immersion in the pages of one's own inner book. It is a form of reflection that has no rules and that finds its logic in the imagination. When I paint I have to be alone, I don't admit other presences. I do not take a brush when I am upset, I only do it when the storm inside me is over to try to best describe it in its facets.

For me, painting is not an instant outlet, it is a form of mental metabolism.

In music and painting who are your teachers? Who are you inspired by? Are there any particular genres you feel most comfortable with?

In music I have had and still have different influences, I cannot define exactly who my teacher may have been. I can say that I have always been inspired by female characters such as Pj Harvey, Patty Smith, Cat woman, Courtney Love, Siouxie. Over time I learned to refine the palate and listen to other genres such as opera: Cecilia Bartoli, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballè. Today I “drug” with Agnes Obel, Larkin Poe, Càssie Eller, and many others, with different genres and styles. The musical genre with which I feel most at ease I would not know how to mention, I am still in the full phase of experimentation and I try to combine different styles as much as possible to put them on my voice. It is a continuous discovery, my musical dimension is constantly evolving. In painting, I certainly take a dip in surrealism and I cannot fail to mention Dali ‘, his philosophy, his expressive fluidity and her brilliant madness. There are others that I like like: De Chirico, Dorothea Tanning, Kortan.