Sara Silvia Ferrucci

The first decades of my life were spent going back and forth between the US and Italy, living and studying between two cultures. This has deeply shaped my perception of belonging and what home actually is. It has granted me the condition of not-belonging and all it entails: a step removed from the environment I inhabit, which only half of me can ever really be part of. To make things more interesting, in the last 10 years I have added the North-East of England to the picture.
I am bilingual in many ways. It’s not only a matter of language - everything gets automatically and constantly translated. Habits, rituals, social conventions, cultural subtleties, tastes, the impalpable vocabulary of gestures and expressions. Fragments, that somehow must fit together and come to terms with incessant longing.
I walk the fine line, the boundary between here and there, that end up being interchangeable. The work of art, for me, is a ‘here’ always seeking to be a ‘there’. And viceversa.
In the world of my collages, ‘here and there’ converse, conflict, battle, reconcile, harmonize, find a space, find a home.
To tirelessly deconstruct and reconstruct an endless source of fragments, to be cut, torn, positioned, glued. A task that by its very ...

In my youth I had the privilege of attending the weekly workshops held in Rome by painter and collagist Annamaria Cesarini Sforza, an invaluable example of artistic attitude and creative freedom.
I studied Art History at Rutgers University and at Stanford University, in the USA.
I later trained as an Art counselor at the 3 year Master in Art Counseling, at the ASPIC school of counseling in Rome, Italy.

1996
Desert Form, photographs, Galleria Immagina, Roma.
2005
Passaparola - 6th International Artist’s Book Show. The artist book was acquired by the XXVIII century Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome.
2006
Fuori Luogo/Out of place , 7th International Artist’s Book Show, Biblioteca Casanatense, Roma, June.
Labyrinth, interactive installation in collaboration with the electronic music composer John Morris. Artincorpo, Isola della Maddalena.
Il libro della Notte, collective artist book curated by Andreas Kramer, shown at Villa Conti Toppo-Wassermann in Toppo di Traversio, Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Padova and in Berlin.
2007
City Wounds, artist book, La città in un libro - 1st itinerant show of artist books,Barcellona.
Peccati in Fiore, artist chiar, collective show curated by Giuseppe Salerno. MOACASA, Nuova Fiera di Roma.
Identity Is, artist’s book, Isole/Islands - 8th International Artist’s Book Show, Roma.
Autoritratto, collage, collective curated by Andreas Kramer, Padova.
Mille artisti per l’Unità, painting collective, curated by Giuseppe Salerno, Il Mitreo, Roma.
Ignis Fatuus, video on Goethe’s Walpurgis Night, in collaboration with John Morris. Il Mitreo, Roma.
Scriptorium, Night Secrets, libri d’artis...