These self-portraits are not about capturing a single image of myself, but about staying with my own face over time. Each piece is a direct record of me in a specific moment, shaped through different materials, from ceramic to resin, silicone to 3D-printed plastic.

 

What changes is not only time, but the way each material holds me. Some preserve, some soften, some distort. My face remains, but it is never exactly the same.

 

Together, these works become a continuous record of becoming. Not a fixed identity, but a series of traces, shaped by time, process, and matter.

 
Giovana Martucci

Painting is not an act of control, but a permission for matter to think.

 

The work unfolds through resin and pigment as a site of resistance. The image is not composed, it insists. Authorship destabilises as intention dissolves into process, allowing something to emerge that cannot be fully directed.

 

What emerges is not representation, but an event governed by the material itself. The artist initiates, the work decides.

 

Giovana Martucci