I translate silence into images, spaces, and tools.
I’m a Deaf artist based between Amsterdam and Bologna. I work with film, live visuals, and accessibility-first design—always starting with questions, not assumptions.
Accessibility is not an afterthought.
It's a design philosophy.
Institutions design for the majority, then retrofit for the rest.
Museums, festivals, and cultural spaces treat accessibility as compliance—checkbox accommodations bolted onto finished products. This approach reveals a fundamental misunderstanding: accessibility constraints often generate the most innovative design solutions.
Deaf perception exposes blind spots in dominant systems.
When you build culture primarily through sound, you miss the visual frequencies, spatial rhythms, and tactile signals that shape how millions experience the world. Deafness isn't absence—it's a different sensory hierarchy that reveals what hearing-centric design overlooks.
Translation is not simplification. It's transformation.
Every cultural and sensory translation changes meaning. Rather than treating this as loss, I work with translation as a creative force—where shifting between Dutch, Italian, Sign Language, and visual systems generates new forms of knowing.
Cross-sensory work
across five disciplines
Film & Documentary
Deaf-led storytelling about language, identity, and everyday life. I’m drawn to long-form attention: how time changes people—and how language holds them.
Multisensory Installation
VJ and spatial work that turns sound into light, pattern, and timing. Performances you can follow with your eyes, your body, your distance.
Inclusive Cooperatives
Co-founder of L’Altro Spazio in Bologna: a cultural bar where accessibility is daily practice, not branding. A place to test what inclusion looks like when things get real.
Accessibility Innovation
I help teams design access as a creative constraint: clearer information, better spatial logic, less friction. Accessibility built in from the start—not added at the end.
Residencies & Mobility
I host and shape small international residencies and exchanges with an access-first approach—so artists can work without the usual barriers.
Projects that turn
perception into form
I Sign, I Live
A feature documentary on Deaf life across cultures—how sign language shapes identity, relationships, and belonging.
L'Altro Spazio
Co-founded an inclusive cultural cooperative and bar in Bologna. A long-term experiment in accessibility-first hospitality, programming, and work culture.
Cena al Buio
An immersive dinner in complete darkness, guided by blind staff. A direct encounter with how space, trust, and attention shift when vision disappears.
Culture Moves Europe
Recipient of Culture Moves Europe (Creative Europe) support to host a multisensory artist residency in Bologna. I designed the working conditions with accessibility as the baseline.
Let’s make something
clear, bold, and accessible.
If you’re building a program, a space, or a tool—and you want accessibility to be real—I’m interested.
Cultural Institutions
Museums, festivals, and venues building accessible experiences that don’t feel like an add-on.
Tech & Research Labs
Teams building interfaces or tools that need Deaf-led design thinking and testing.
Artists & Collaborators
People who want to experiment across film, performance, space, and translation.