Ala d’Amico (1985) is an Italian Brazilian artist and founder since 2021 of ORME, an experimental printmaking studio. Fearing that the constant proliferation of new images would only nullify them, Ala d’Amico became interested in the life of existing images, studying their possibilities for transformation both on a formal and conceptual level. The question the artist asks herself is what is, or what could be, the life of an image.

The silkscreen technique becomes the pertinent medium for exploring the dualism between a new image and an appropriated one, between the principle of an unicum and that of a single image within a series, between the concept of ownership and that of use.

Both analog and digital methods of reproduction are used in her works. The images also often come from different sources, such as history books, stills from TV newscasts, scientific texts, appropriating them in dialogue with personal images within new compositions to emphasize alternative narratives and possibly uncover latent meanings.