Michela Marrazzi

My artistic practice explores the encounter between body, voice and matter, where animation becomes a poetic act and presence emerges through the dialogue between human and figure.

Detail is the essence of my work. It guides both the making of each figure and the act of animation itself. I see beauty in the marks left by time: a wrinkle, the tension of a hand, the weight of a posture. These are not merely aesthetic choices, but traces of lived experience. Every detail holds a memory, every gesture carries a story.

By listening to these subtle signs, I create figures whose presence is shaped by memory, allowing matter to become a vessel for human experience.

My hands are where this dialogue comes to life. Through them, matter is shaped, listened to, and transformed; through them, each figure finds its own breath. I see my hands as a second mind, thinking through touch and making, where creation and animation become one continuous gesture. It is in this passage—from the hand to the figure—that presence emerges: a shared breath between human and matter.