Marta Farrace

Marta Farrace was born on October 3, 1996. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts, where in 2021 she graduated in Painting with a thesis titled “Transparency: A Journey Toward an Inner Memory.”
She later moved to Valenza, as during her master’s studies she developed a passion for jewelry as an art form that combines creativity with craftsmanship and manual skill. These aspects are also reflected in her artworks, through the use of stitching and handmade paper. Stitching in particular, with its repetitive nature, becomes an almost meditative act.

Her recent works are fragments of time that Marta has tried, even unconsciously, to retrieve. In the background, there are photographs upon which she intervenes with painting and overlays a transparent fabric stretched on a frame. This element, by creating a distance between the image and the viewer, represents the passing of time. The fabric, being transparent, acts as the boundary of memory—a limit that cannot be crossed but at the same time allows one to see through its weave. In Marta’s works, it becomes one of many layers—along with paint, paper, stitching, scraps of canvas, and other fabrics—overlapping in an attempt to evoke memory and the existence or perception of it.