cU Humans - Alien Archeology
by cancellato UNIFORM
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A cancellato UNIFORM project that investigates how different people and communities think beyond their disciplines to open new cultural perspectives.
MATTEO PUCCI MORALDI
INTERVIEW BY MARTA FRANCESCHINI
PHOTOGRAPHED BY FEDERICA COCCIRO
Marta Franceschini
We live in a world that considers interdisciplinarity a value, and we are always ori-ented toward multimediality, pushed to move between different territories.
In this fluid landscape, how do you define yourself?
Matteo Pucci Moraldi
Given my nature, I prefer to use the classic term: sculptor. I work a lot on the material and this defines my practice and my creative identity. However, if I wanted to cross over into other disciplines, I would say that I am also a bit of an alchemist. A scientist who imagines, who lives in a dream of his own.
Marta Franceschini
Destroying your own work is a courageous act. No jealousy over what you shape? I'm interested in how you get rid of these feelings, or even if you have them.
Matteo Pucci Moraldi
I know my ability to model, but chance has a beauty that I cannot replicate. I rely on chance because the most beautiful forms often emerge from destruction.
Chance leads to results that I could not achieve intentionally.
The expression that always comes most naturally to me to define my work is “alien archaeology.” I've always said it in a very instinctive way, and over time I've tried to
dissect it a bit more. I don't talk about other planets or distant worlds. For me, there is nothing more alien than that which we have so close and yet is still unreachable that which lies in the pith of the Amazon rainforest, or in the abyssal depths where man has not yet arrived.
Matteo Pucci Moraldi (Firenze, 1994) lives and works in Lastra a Signa, Italy. His research
combines a manual and technical knowledge of materials - cultivated through the experience
as a marble worker and restorer - with a visual quest into the possibility of forms.
Having experimented in genres and media, from classical faces, decorative borders, ornamental motifs, floral figures, inscriptions, to architectural frames, Pucci Moraldi’s vision originates hybrid sculptural presences that seem to inhabit at the intersection between archeology and futurology.
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