Alice Biolo

So when you were finishing your degree, how did your work look like?

Well, when I was finishing my 40th year, So in the fourth year, you don't do projects that are assigned to you.

You work in your own projects.

So in my fourth year, I've done the collection of nine brooches that is called Under the Skin.

So that was kind of my debut in the

industry.

I'm very impressed.

That was your graduation project because it's really beautiful and it's very emotional.

So the thing is, and that's one of the things that I love about your work is that everything is connected to emotion.

How did you tap into it while you were in school? It kind

of started toward the end of third year.

There were some projects that I felt they were much closer to what maybe I want to work on.

And there was like two specific projects that they kind of like made me realize where I wanted to go in my fourth year.

Because usually the third year you need to kind of like propose to your tutor kind of what direction you want to do.

And it was like a project that was assigned at university and the team was touch.

And that is the first time I brought the stainless steel pins in.

Because I remember myself also when I was in high school, people are like so huggy.

And now like with my close friends, I'm also very affectionate and I hug.

But sometimes like with strangers, I'm like, don't touch me.

And it was something that I kind of wanted to like touch on.

And also, you know, like all the issues with like sexual harassment and like the life of being a woman and So that was like a university project where I brought up like this material, the stainless steel, all those kind of like spiky and kind of dangerous material into the work.

And then there was this other project that I've done in my free time that was for Studio Vonmo in China.

Felicia Li is the curator and she was doing this amazing project, a curatorial project And there was this one specific where she requested the artist to make something that was kind of like representing part of your soul.

And then it was going to go to a lake in Tibet to have this full, how to say, kind of like a clearing, like some kind of like a performance and a ritual.

And then there would be like exhibit as like a cleanse object or And I used, again, the stainless steel pin to kind of bring the dark side of my soul that would go to Tibet and have this ritual to cleanse and then, I don't know.