Martina Mura | Geoscritture

Photographers:
Marco Fronteddu
William Fernando Aparicio
Claudia Ponzi
Martina Mura

Geoscritture – Coexistence practices
Opening 24/01/2024
25/01/2023 – 08/03/2024

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The title of the personal exhibition Geoscritture by Martina Mura comes from the mapping process which is both the title of the pictorial work and the root of her research.
Through the panoramic gaze of the vision from above, the artist travels from one place to another identifying signs and shapes, which can be seen from near and far in just a few moments.
Mura begins her journey from the Sardinian home, tracing lines that travel immersed in the deepest countryside, up to the representation of cities, rivers, and lakes across the planet through abstraction.
Martina Mura’s works describe geography as the transposition and exploration of places, which through research become inner landscapes.
Curated by Claudia Ponzi

Geoscritture – Coexistence practices
Elements such as maps, lands and seeds are the morphological factors that outline Martina Mura’s artistic research.

The solo exhibition Geoscritture – Pratiche di Coesistenza (Geoscriptures – Coexistance practices) , represents an opportunity to collect tracks of the artist’s production, determined by the writing of places, the relationship between landscape and subject and the search for the self. Her work finds its origins in practices linked to the acts of walking, observing, and collecting, meant as operations of discovery of one’s own existence.

The coexistence between the parts of the Earth and its inhabitants finds place in labyrinthine mappings of the unconscious. These geographical writings narrate often unexplored terrains, belonging to physical and other ethereal places. The external and internal findings generate dreamlike visions and are returned not only in the graphic-pictorial state, but also in the form of a sewed stitch, intended as a connection, a union between the parts, which records experiences of certain spheres of reality. The journey is completed by the signs of the collection, materials offered by nature that take on new functions, first as an element of documentation of practices and then as a medium.

The artist sees in walking trails a study process between places and identities, creating a particular emotional and immersive involvement in the observer, in search of their own geographical maps.
Text by Elisa Barbieri