The Exhibition Hall of Can Curt opens this Friday, December 5, at 7 pm, Inhabiting the driftthe new proposal of Valeria Fieschi Marí, an exhibition that explores identity, memory and the link between creation and life experience. The public will be able to visit it from Thursday to Sunday, from 7 to 9 p.m., until December 21.
An intimate journey through personal and creative layers.
In Inhabiting the Drift, Fieschi Marí brings together a group of works that are the result of an intimate and sustained process over time, where different facets of her identity as a woman, mother, artisan, freelancer, migrant with Ibizan roots, activist and artist converge. “A few years ago I began a series of works in which I discovered a connection between the materials of my
One of the axes of the exhibition stems from the teaching that her friend and teacher Pia Persia left her: “The true artist builds his work with the materials that life experiences provide him and recognizes himself in his discourse with the same sincerity with which he looks at himself in the mirror”. These words, engraved in her memory, deeply mark some pieces where creating, raising and believing form the same plot.
The home as a workshop and creative refuge
Fieschi Marí considers this project a conscious return to her facet as an artisan, albeit from a different perspective. In her usual work, the workshop functions as an external and productive space; however, on this occasion she developed or finalized all the pieces inside her home. “This difference is essential, because it brings the work home, and it is precisely from that space-and who I am in it-that it feeds,” she says.
The materials she uses bring different meanings: glass, present in her daily creative life; ceramics, linked to a meditative state; wool, fabrics and threads, which connect her with other stages of her life and with her first years of motherhood; and everyday objects, such as windows that become symbolic portals. Each piece tries to sustain the fragility of a day to day life where the plots of life advance without linearity or order, in a spontaneous, lively way and in permanent reconstruction.
An identity map in constant movement
The exhibition proposes an identity inquiry that moves from the interior to the environment, reveals layers of the self and opens a look towards a vital movement without a predetermined direction: the drift that we inhabit and that builds, with imperfect beauty, that which we call home.
About the artist
Born in Buenos Aires in 1985 and graduated in Visual Arts from the National University of the Arts (UNA), Valeria Fieschi Marí has been living in Ibiza since 2011. Her career evolved from painting to a language that combines textiles, ceramics, glass and other materials. Roots, the map as a space-time representation, motherhood and the identity of woman and migrant occupy a central place in her work, also influenced by the memory of an Ibizan grandfather who emigrated to Argentina.
Between 2006 and 2010 he participated in numerous group exhibitions and scenographic projects in Buenos Aires, as well as collaborating with the artist Pia Persia. Already in Ibiza, she worked with Xiringuito Teatre i Comunitat and presented both solo exhibitions -such as Andando, Habitando (Club Diario de Ibiza, 2015)- and group exhibitions, many of them linked to ceramics.
Since 2013 promotes the Mar de Fuego project, where he creates glass pieces with a marked Mediterranean stamp. He currently lives and works in Sant Josep and continues to train and actively participate in artistic and social projects. His work stands out for its versatility and openness to multiple disciplines and concepts, always in dialogue with the present and its socio-cultural context.
