To understand Márcia Girardi’s work, one must let go of the idea that a studio
is a place for spontaneous creation. Her workspace is, first and foremost, a
laboratory, and her practice is a continuation of research through other
means. With a strong and relevant academic background (Mackenzie,
UNICAMP, USP), Márcia is not an artist who draws inspiration from nature; she
is an intellectual who thinks with nature. Her work is a form of knowledge, an
archaeology of matter that excavates layers of memory, ruin, and resilience
embedded in the natural world.
Born in São Paulo, her path is marked by rare consistency. From her early
participations in prestigious venues like the “III Bienal de Santos” and the “II
National Competition of the Accademia Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in
Brazil,” to recent exhibitions in cutting-edge galleries like ArtLab Gallery, her
presence in the art circuit is constant. This solid practical foundation has been
deepened by an equally rigorous intellectual immersion (Master’s, Doctorate,
and Post-doctorate), shaping her as a research-driven artist in her fullest
form.
Márcia does not create from a blank canvas. Her starting point is the fractured
world, the history accumulated in layers of soil and in traces of what has been
erased. Her academic and artistic journey—marked by decades of research,
teaching, and production—is inseparable from her creation. The rigor of
thought finds a physical extension in matter, and it is from this fusion that her
work breathes.
Her thinking is nourished by interlocutors such as Anselm Kiefer and Frans
Krajcberg, whom she met in Nova Viçosa during her research. From them,
Márcia Girardi developed a visual poetics committed to the connection
between art, ecology, gesture, and reflection. Her approach, however, goes
beyond denunciation: it proposes the reconstruction of meaning through the
gathering of fragments—material, historical, and symbolic—that, in her hands,
become seeds of new futures.
In the presence of her works, it is not enough to simply look. One must read the
textures, decipher the scars, sense the silences. The landscape is not a mere
representation—it is a body. Burnt earth, raw wood, natural pigments, and
organic structures make up her visual vocabulary. Each chosen material
carries a narrative, a trace of history that the artist transforms into art.
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