SR: I know you had a “street artist past” so I think here comes from your strong relationship with colors. But I’ve also seen your work for club2club so, what’s your relationship with music? Do you find any affinity between a kind of sound and a color?  

MATTIA: It’s fun to read questions about music so often while not doing it publicly, it is one of the many experiments and inspirations that I bring to my creative flow. I usually listen to music when I create, sometimes I need “noisy” music, when instead I am already in the creative flow I need to listen to “more silent“ music and usually it is jazz or classical one. Sounds are sensations, forms, colors, vibrations that help to resonate what you have inside.

SR: I read something on you that hit me, when you’re not with your camera, you shoot with your eyes. That’s great. How much “reality” is there in your foto? and how much “illusion”?

MATTIA: I try to create photos that can be likely by distorting the use of objects to inspire to see everyday reality differently, free from the habits that limit us. We are full of limits and I try to eliminate them by living by playing.