Francesca Marti’s studio in Mallorca is always changing. It is a place in constant flux. Her new work is shaped, assembled and adapted, which itself often reflects her current artistic themes, such as transformation and regrowth.
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One recent work by Marti is made from a large colour photograph of New York framed in a polycarbonate box (180 x 120 x 10cm). It contains 40 small Believers sculptures painted in purple, green, grey and copper, which walk across the towering city landscape.
«This new work is about a city in dissolution,» says the artist. «It refers to fragmentation, but the buildings are also morphing. I wanted to represent the idea that although a city may be falling apart, it also exists in a positive state of transition.»
Many of Marti’s recent photo-based works feature imagery in which the mathematical regularity of architecture has been twisted, softened and stretched. Skyscrapers become floating, weightless. Also new in her studio, her small Believer – Serpent 1 sculpture made from polished aluminium shows a supple human figure propped against a wall, its torso twisted as it holds up an invisible weight.
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