Deborah Graziano

Castrovillari (CS), Italy, 1988. Lives and works between Castrovillari and Milan.
After graduating in Mechanical Engineering in 2012, she chose to devote herself entirely to art, embarking on a path that moves along the boundary between intuition and rigor, in search of a sense of unity.
Her practice investigates the relationship between body, nature and memory, understood as symbolic tools through which to explore the transformations and vulnerabilities of human experience. She creates sculptures and installations conceived as suspended beings, in which heterogeneous materials and unexpected juxtapositions reveal mysterious tensions and affinities.

Her work grows out of listening to intimate suggestions and traces gathered from everyday life: common objects, natural elements and remnants are removed from their condition as discarded matter and brought into relation with concrete, metals, wax, photography and video. Removed from their original context, they transform into enigmatic presences, charged with narrative potential.
 

She is drawn to the coexistence of irreconcilable polarities — hostile affinities, weight and lightness, wound and care — as well as to the productive use oferror, which she considers a generative and revelatory resource, capable of amplifying meaning precisely through its contradiction.

Each of her works is an act of recomposition and a reflection on the human condition, but also an attempt to create symbolic spaces in which pain and grace may coexist and fragility reveal its full power.