Marta Cypel is an Italian ceramic artist who, after several years in Paris, now resides and works in Lisbon.
Her work is profoundly shaped by a fascination with geology, a discipline where each stratum unfolds a narrative of transformation, creation, and destruction, mirroring the human condition. The process of landscape formation and erosion is both enigmatic and compelling, revealing how the ancient and the modern converge, how landscapes are constantly shaped, degraded, and redefined. It offers a reflection on how each generation imprints its own mark upon history.
Through Marta's creations, we encounter the notion of contemporary relics. These pieces are born from the inheritance of ancient forms and the natural forces that shape our world. For the artist, relics are not mere remnants of the past; they are vessels of memory, carriers of tales that have withstood the passage of time. Often sculpted from clay—a material itself enduring across millennia—each piece becomes a narrator, a tangible link between the present and an imagined past, embodying both the permanence and the transience of our fragile existence.
