I have a name inspired by the sea, a spirit shaped by the mountains… but the body of a city girl.
Over the years, I have been many things: a collage artist in love with abstraction and drawn to anything that carries a past, a patina, a story to tell; an obsessive reader, writer and collector of papers, colours and fabrics; a “reporter with a pencil” (and a camera); an exploring anthropologist with a backpack full of dreams and maps; a pirate hunting for design treasures in flea markets; and, always, a woman with a suitcase, ready to leave for a new adventure.
All these experiences have gradually found their way into my artistic practice.
My work moves between collage, abstraction, collected materials and the visual traces of places, cultures and memories. Today, I create artistic projects for luxury hotels, private homes, hospitality spaces and collectors, alongside on-demand classes and specialist workshops.
In recent years, my colourful collage series has opened a more introspective chapter: an exploration of memory through form and colour, rooted in the emotional and visual landscape of my childhood and adolescence in the 1970s and 1980s. The distinctive shapes, colours and aesthetics of those years have become fragments of a personal visual archive, intertwined with my imagined memories of the 1950s and 1960s. Colour became a personal language through which I revisited and reimagined these inner fragments.
After this journey through colour, I return to the quieter language that has always shaped my work—a restrained palette of beige, white and black, and some touch of colors, rooted in my artistic formation in the late 1980s and early 1990s and informed by Minimalism, Japanese aesthetics and abstraction. The two languages are not opposites, but different expressions of the same ongoing exploration of memory, perception and form.
Marina Misiti
(Credits Photo: Victoria Semykina)