Francesca Ferreri: Contemporary Sculpture and Restoration as Fiction

Francesca Ferreri is a contemporary visual artist based in Turin, Italy, known for her innovative approach to sculpture and installation. Born in 1981 in Savigliano, she studied at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti di Torino. Her artistic practice is deeply informed by the principles of restoration, which she adopts not merely as a technical skill but as a conceptual guiding principle. Francesca Ferreri focuses on the 'lacuna'—the physical and psychological gap within objects and memories—using it as a generative space to build new, hybrid structures. Her works often involve the meticulous combination of traditional art materials like plaster, clay, and pigments with everyday industrial fragments and found objects. This results in sculptures that appear as 'prosthetic' additions to space, suggesting an ongoing process of repair and reimagination. Francesca Ferreri has exhibited her work in prestigious venues including Museo Casa Morandi in Bologna, Castello di Rivoli, and P/////AKT in Amsterdam. Her art is held in significant public and private collections, such as the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. Through her drawings and three-dimensional works, she explores the dialogue between art history, mathematics, and the fragile nature of physical matter. Her studio in Turin serves as a laboratory for material research, where she continues to push the boundaries of contemporary sculptural language by embracing the beauty of the incomplete and the reconstructed.