Marianna Sannino

Marianna Sannino (Napoli, 1985) 

Her artistic research focuses on memory and the diachronic dimension of time. Present, past, and future merge and float suspended in a common tangible reality.

Promises, hopes, and desires from the past project their light and effect into the future, creating a dimension of expectation and suspension. Around these feelings of expectation, everything changes, while they remain constant, turning into the indelible signs of the passing of time. From one's family, everyone inherits these suspended feelings, which turn into the roots through which identity is built.

The artist tells stories in which the projection of memories, of what has been, plays a decisive, essential role. Art gives body to what is suspended, present but invisible, managing to defeat the evanescence of life. Her research invites us to reflect on the instability and changeability of the existence of an individual or a community, placing the viewer in front of the conscious precariousness and beauty of life. Taking painting as a starting point, her works are in many cases transformed into sculptures and installations, around which - or within which - the viewer can experience time. The artist intersects different media and expressive techniques as if they were the threads in the weave of a carpet: the drawing that is shown at the end is the trace of a story that has unfolded over time and whose effects are still present.