Azia Maria Sammartano, alias ‘essereILnonessere’ is an artist from Turin, Italy.

Her university education is in the field of human communication; graduated in medicine with a specialty in phoniatrics, she has always worked in communication in the broad sense with a master’s degree in neuropsychology and in the field of neuroscience. Studying alternative modes of communication and contact is his mission, art is part of this long and dangerous process.

A multifaceted artist, she has always demonstrated in each of her works the desire to challenge social and artistic conventions as well as to explore the boundaries between being and non-being, between conscious and unconscious, between reality and fiction. Irony and provocation are part of Azia’s artistic production both for the themes addressed and for the mediums used.

The human being is complex and Azia, in her works, is capable of capturing the immense mystery of the universe, inviting everyone to reflect on existence itself and on the mystery of life.