Silvia Baccanti

Born and raised in the Dolomites. I studied Comics and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and then attended ISIA in Urbino. I draw, write, paint, do tattoos, and in my spare time, I go to the mountains.

Invasione Auspicata

Silvia Baccanti - Invasione auspicata

In the city, trees are enclosed and isolated within the confines of flowerbeds. Bologna’s walls resemble this perimeter, but the relationship between plants and buildings is reversed: the former are in the majority, no longer bound by a boundary but free to escape and grow anywhere, overshadowing the houses, which become an almost transparent space that can be crossed and inhabited by plants, bees, and other small animals, whose coexistence with humans we often forget.