The theme of Fragility through sculptural portraits and drawings
an artistic research on matter and its impermanence
This project explores the theme of human fragility, examining its many dimensions through sculpture and painting. Fragility is not approached as weakness, but as a fundamental aspect of existence — a space of vulnerability, yet also of sensitivity, transformation, and creative potential. The works emerge from an intimate dialogue with the body, memory, and time: delicate or weathered materials — such as wax, plaster, paper, and fluid pigments — give shape to ephemeral figures, incomplete or transforming bodies, and marks that evoke the instability of identity and the constant interplay between resistance and collapse. Through this process, art becomes an act of listening and bearing witness — to what breaks, but also to what, in breaking, reveals a new possibility of presence.
The artistic research presented is the result of a year's work. The ambition was to be able to translate into works of art something that really has to do with human feelings and condition. From all the works emerges the vision of a fragile, but at the same time strong, present human condition. I made drawings and sculptures that tell how the human figure is at the same time a combination of strength and fragility.
Artistic research is a complex process that passes through man and his unconscious through material action. Man tends to create and in this act he unconsciously inserts meanings and symbols, arriving at a different type of language. Artistic research can be understood as an adventure through form. Sculpture and drawing in this case are the techniques developed for this project. My research begins from the attraction for language that the material already has intrinsically in its very essence. The research I present is a journey through the materials of sculpture and the use of charcoal in drawing. I wanted to address the theme of human fragility through artistic language.
