Maria Positano b. 1995
Overview
Her artistic research focuses on the body as a space of relation and vulnerability. Through sculptures and installations made with fragile, reclaimed materials and hybrid forms, she explores the skin as a metaphor for a mutable armor that protects, defines identity, and opens to contact with the other. Her work weaves memory, gender, and culture to create open, poetic narratives that invite reflection on the relationship between defense and openness, individuality and otherness.
Her artistic research focuses on the body as a space of relation and vulnerability. Through sculptures and installations made with fragile, reclaimed materials and hybrid forms, she explores the skin as a metaphor for a mutable armor that protects, defines identity, and opens to contact with the other. Her work weaves memory, gender, and culture to create open, poetic narratives that invite reflection on the relationship between defense and openness, individuality and otherness.
Biography
Maria Positano is an artist of Neapolitan origin who lives and works between Naples and London. Her itinerant life—spent between England, the United States, France and Italy—nurtures a complex, fluid identity reflected in her artistic practice. After studying at the City and Guilds of London Art School and the Royal College of Art, she developed a language born from the dialogue between different cultures and from continual personal transformation.
Her artistic research focuses on the body as a space of relation and vulnerability. Through sculptures and installations made with fragile, reclaimed materials and hybrid forms, she explores the skin as a metaphor for a mutable armor that protects, defines identity, and opens to contact with the other. Her work weaves memory, gender, and culture to create open, poetic narratives that invite reflection on the relationship between defense and openness, individuality and otherness.
She has exhibited at major international institutions, including the Saatchi Gallery in London. Recent recognitions include the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors (2024) and the South Thames Colleges Group AiR Award (2023).
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