Pietro Moretti

(b 1996, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Drawing on his personal life; recollections from Italy; and contemporary culture; Moretti populates his work with figures caught in knotted actions: touching; turning away; holding; suffocating; embracing; falling; reaching. In an on-going conversation between the figurative and the non-figurative; his paintings reflect on selfhood; intimacy; and the ambivalence of emotion. Through the depiction of familial narratives; romantic relationships; or situations of collective living; he delves into the psychological slippages; projections and conflicting desires that arise from interactions between people in everyday situations. In his paintings; Moretti manipulates tensions between the represented image and the visual and tactile languages of surface and colour to suggest the physicality of bodies and the peculiarities of perception.