“Mi sto rovinando per voi” - in English: “I ruin myself for you” - is an ongoing series of ceramic sculptures and videos that began in the summer of 2023. Fragments of memories of ancient and modern ruins from various places the artist has visited are appropriated through playful reconstruction. Colorful miniature ceramic building blocks and slip (liquid clay) used as mortar form the basic elements of these miniature construction sites, where the connection between architecture, memory, and identity is explored. In the form of sculptures, ruins that tell of the fall of great civilizations and others that speak of the corruption of the recent past- until now in Italy and Colombia- are integrated into a landscape in which the object becomes the symbol of a personal anecdote. The idea of the monument and the places designated as worthy of that label are put into question by giving equal value to ruins of modernity that are normally perceived as abject or at least irrelevant. Drug-financed unfinished skyscrapers, abandoned half-built bridges,  and gems of the cradle of humanity coexist in an equalizing pastel-colored model world.

In the videos, the documentation of the construction process of a miniature wall offers access to the joy of building experienced by the artist, a humorous exploration of childhood nostalgia. As his hand carefully places stone upon stone, the artist hums and sings the repetitive verse “mi sto rovinando per voi”, adding exaggerated sound effects with his mouth. The works in this series result from a back-and-forth between joyful remembrance and melancholy of oblivion.