Cellophanee, born in Naples in 2001, took his first steps in his visual exploration through graffiti, developing a keen sensitivity to urban mark-making, instinctive gestures and the layering of surfaces. His training was first consolidated at the ‘SS. Apostoli’ Art School in Naples and subsequently through a degree in Set Design, a crucial journey that radically transformed his approach to space, light and materials.
It is precisely in the convergence of his street-art sensibility and his scenographic vision that the artist’s practice finds its full expression: the use of fabric becomes a central element and a defining stylistic feature of his work. Tissue is not merely a medium, but a three-dimensional form, an ephemeral architecture and a symbolic membrane capable of engaging with the surrounding space. In the two-year period 2025–2026, the artist establishes her presence on the contemporary art scene through two exhibition projects in Naples: the exhibition RITUAL at the REC and the exhibition WHILE YOU SLEEP hosted at the HSS HUB. In these instalments, the interplay of materials and visuals created by Cellophanee invites the viewer to step inside the artwork, exploring the realms of ritual and the unconscious.
Through the language of street art, where weathered walls and anonymous surfaces are reimagined as contemporary canvases, the artist explores the fine line between order and chaos, bringing to life a figurative and symbolic bestiary that takes root in the urban fabric as a series of collective visions. This visual imagery is transposed into the realm of tufting and rug-making, transforming the rigidity of concrete into a soft, tactile and three-dimensional material. Colour emerges as the primary means of expression: vivid, instinctive and deliberately unsettling, capable of triggering a conceptual short-circuit between the playful and the unsettling. Each work constitutes an invitation to enter an expressive universe suspended between the public space of the street and the intimate personal sphere, integrating the immediacy of the gesture with the extended temporality of the weaving process.