FRANCESCA CIAUDANO. PAINTER AND CERAMIST. ITALY
Everything Touches Everything Else
Paintings and ceramics on interdependence: the invisible ties between all things.
Made at the foot of the Sibillini, the mountains where a Sibyl was said to live.
the artist
I’m Francesca Ciaudano. I make art the way some people pray.
I live and work at Casa Janna in San Ginesio, an artist’s house where guests sleep, eat and talk among the work. Art, food and hospitality make one practice.
Everything I make starts from the same question: what happens when we remember that everything is connected?
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.
