In a world where we are surrounded by inanimate matter, Paolo Tarelli is driven by the idea that objects possess a greater agency which always shifts away from human perception. By considering the consequent trash derived from our use of them, his work focuses on the perception of objects and explores how their unconventional representation can reveal new meanings behind everyday situations.

Inspiration comes from everyday objects that take over his attention. Those objects are often defined as cheap or having low-quality designs, and they permanently circulate in our daily lives. They can be ornaments, decorations, items, tools, disposable objects or any replaceable components. Particularly, he feels compassion toward artefacts as their only value resides in their function. Moreover, the combination of shape and purpose makes the objects fashionable and functional, and consequently, he investigates the visual relationship between their form and pictorial qualities.

Paolo works with painting, photography, and mediums which have mostly two-dimensional formats, for their frontal qualities and the illusion of a three-dimensional perspective they can create. Specifically, through painting, he finds the materiality of which the world he sees is made. In this way, he creates a link with the object to establish a personal dialogue and grow awareness of the variety of values we can attach to objects.

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