Artist Bio
Marisa Falconi (1984) is a Canadian-Italian visual artist. She graduated from the University of Toronto (2010) with an Hon. BA in Cultural Anthropology and a lifelong fascination with how humans are shaped by material culture. Her work in ceramics offers a shift from thinking to feeling; touching the world as a way of making sense of it.
Marisa currently studies at the Byron School of Art, and continues creating small-batch sculptural ceramics from her seaside studio on the southern Gold Coast.
About
I fell in love with ‘the vase’ back in my university days. My degree in cultural anthropology led me into the abstract course: vase as a subconscious representation of the womb-space.
It is said that human invention mimics nature, and that the vase was a subconscious mimic of a woman's belly - the space where transformation happens.
Dug from the earth and moulded by human hands, the vase came to replicate the belly as a space within which something is transformed: water cools, bread leavens, foods ferment and meats cook. I’m forever intrigued by this, as well as by what it means to be a woman.
The fragility and magic of the feminine, as well as its robustness and enduring functionality - in direct contrast to the ‘linearality’ of our modern patriarchal system - are something that continuously informs my practice. 𐃡