Garage Inferno is the new project conceived and curated by Straight To Hell, the Rome-based studio that has been a reference point for screen printing on paper and fabric in Italy for over twenty years. For the launch, we interviewed Alice Pasquini, the protagonist of the first appointment. From April to December 2026, the project opens to the public a usually invisible space: the transformation of an artwork into a screen print. It is an immersive experience that moves through the artistic process in its most concrete and imperfect dimension.

Illustrators, painters, and street artists — including Alice Pasquini, Hitnes, Sten & Lex, Valeria Carrieri, Trota, Sofia Bonelli, Ludovica Anzaldi, Daniele Tozzi, Elia900, Deep Masito, and Scarfull — are invited to engage with a language that is never neutral, but one that modifies, translates, and sometimes betrays the original image. It is precisely in this shift that screen printing returns to being a living, unrepeatable, and deeply contemporary practice.

Alice Pasquini, a central figure in Italian street art on an international level, has long developed a visual research rooted in public space. «I am especially interested in telling stories about people, everyday gestures, relationships, and emotions, while creating connections between images and places», she tells us. It is a practice she now defines as “contextual art”: not isolated images, but works born from a resonance with space and with those who inhabit it.

It is precisely this approach that makes screen printing a natural ground for experimentation. «It is very close to my way of working, made of body, rhythm, unexpected events, and above all layers and stratifications», she explains. A language that, like her work in urban space, accepts and seeks out error: «it is not a problem; on the contrary, I look for it, because that is where the most interesting and unpredictable things happen».

During the workshop, Pasquini works closely with the participants, sharing every stage of the process: from the initial painterly gesture to the chromatic choices, up to the technical adaptations needed to translate an artwork into print. It is precisely in this passage that the image changes nature. «When an image moves from the street to screen printing, it changes skin: it loses scale, but gains stratification; it becomes slower, more constructed».

Unlike working in the street, where the process is often visible, the studio introduces a new dimension, more intimate yet shared at the same time. «I am used to showing the process when working in public space, while the studio is a very private space for me. In this case, it was essential to show it as part of the work, not as backstage». Making errors, tests, and technical steps visible means «showing the thought, not just the result».

The technical side of the workshop is curated by Arturo Amitrano, a leading figure in art printing, who guides participants through the entire process: from file preparation to screen exposure, all the way to the final print on paper. Each participant works on a personal image, building the foundations to continue independently.

In this context, screen printing moves definitively away from the idea of serial reproduction and returns to being gesture, craft, and matter. A stance that today takes on a broader meaning as well. «In a digital world, working manually is almost a political choice: it means accepting time, matter, imperfection, and giving value to something that truly exists», Pasquini concludes.

Founded in Rome in 2003, Straight To Hell has built a radical approach to printing over the years: no standardization, no automatic replication, but a process that is unique every time, developed together with the artist. It is precisely from this philosophy that Garage Inferno was born, opening to the public for the first time a knowledge that risked remaining confined behind the doors of the studio.

Here you can find all the dates for the upcoming Garage Inferno workshops.