Born and raised in Sardinia, the colours and symbols of this millenary island populate her imagination and reverberate in painting, giving life to new forms and combinations of meaning in which classical and contemporary are inextricably intertwined.

Silvia Idili Was born in Cagliari in 1982 and moved to Milan in 2007 where she now lives.
Her work is dedicated to evocation more than to expressivity.

The bodies and faces painted by Silvia Idili appear as if suspended in a motionless time; they emerge from the darkness of the unconscious, from the oblivion of the uncertainties and anxieties that often grip the human soul. They are men and women whose eyes are often hidden, submerged or dugout, in a continuous play of veils and solid geometries in which the spectator is invited to go beyond the visible, beyond appearances, even beyond matter.

Silvia Idili brings with her love and pride for the traditions and culture of a land surrounded by the sea which, as she herself says, "is not an "island" but a symbol of freedom and moves an inner gaze to undertake a journey". Born and raised in Sardinia, the colours and symbols of this millenary island populate her imagination and reverberate in painting, giving life to new forms and combinations of meaning in which classical and contemporary are inextricably intertwined.

The artist, born in 1982, has lived and worked in Milan for years. She approached the oil technique almost by chance and since then has never stopped using it. Her dreamlike visions take shape within complex interior landscapes, made of flat backgrounds and a few enigmatic elements on which the viewer's gaze is forced to pause.

Her artistic research recalls the formula “ut pictura poesis” by Oratio to express through colours and shapes the spiritual and mystic tension towards the anxiety of contemporaneity.