FRANCESCA CIAUDANO. PAINTER AND CERAMIST. ITALY
Everything Touches Everything Else
Paintings and ceramics on interdependence: the invisible ties between humans, animals, earth and the unseen
Made at the foot of the Sibillini, the mountains where a Sibyl was said to live.
the artist
I make art the way some people pray
I'm Francesca Ciaudano, an Italian artist working across painting and ceramics. My work explores the connections between the visible and the unseen, and the many ways we can perceive and understand the world
I live and work at Casa Janna in San Ginesio, the house and creative project I conceived and created in the Marche countryside. Here, guests sleep, share meals and spend time among my paintings and ceramics. Art, food, architecture and hospitality come together as parts of a wider artistic practice, exploring how the spaces we inhabit shape the way we feel, perceive and relate to the world
Everything I create is connected by one underlying question: how might we recover access to ways of knowing the world that modern life has taught us to overlook?
May the invisible flow into the visible.
In turbulent times we are given the chance to transit between worlds. Between the visible and the invisible. A unique opening to the true essence of oneself. As the illusion of separation breaks down, the inside and outside inevitably reflect each other.
F. CIAUDANO
CANCELLED VOICE.
In my art, chance & natural processes are deployed. Rivers of movement on paper shape into abstract form. Despite their abstract nature, I have come to learn how paintings always have a story to tell.
On this piece as the water settled, the pigments took form into the story they were carrying. It was the story of a Mouthless Woman, of words held within, of sounds unsounded.
Explaining art is limiting as the expression is never finished and the images never fixed. Yet the Mouthless Woman was given back a voice to bring her emotions into the conversation.
Latest Work.
HUMANSCAPE. A collection that explores our depths through the language of nature.
