Martina Geroni
a cancellato UNIFORM project that investigates how different people and communities think beyond their disciplines to open new cultural perspectives
WRITTEN BY FRANCESCA DEL BOCA
PHOTOGRAPHED BY FEDERICA COCCIRO
TRANSLATED BY FRANCESCA QUAGLIA
“I asked myself: what did I really like to do at that time? And I suddenly remembered I used to feel in the right place just when molding ceramics during industrial art classes.
As if by magic, this distant feeling turned on again when I found myself in Mexico for work and I met with the lathe for the first time. When I sit in front of it now, it’s me and it. And I feel happy, happy as when I was a kid.”
“My environmentalist soul is my personal contribution to a better world which also passes through my researches to one day be able to work with stone and clay waste. This is how I try to make the world of ceramics more sustainable. Behind every mug, there’s a minimum of three weeks of work. Made of many different moments as cooking, sending, glazing and a lot of waiting.”
“Every object is unique and it holds the emotions I felt while molding it: this is the additional value of the things made with time and love. Additionally, clay can really feel the emotions, and it shapes accordingly. Every person relates to clay as they do to life: someone by being strong and secure, others by being more clumsy and unsure. To sit in silence and mold is almost like a therapy session, which taught me balance and awareness. ”
After her past life as an architect between Italy and Mexico, today she is an artist based in Lodi. In her studio in the historic center of the city, created out of the basement of a former monastery from 1200, she designs and works on different objects: little functional sculptures where earth shows its most spontaneous soul through natural clays. Martina Geroni’s sculptures are spread all around the world and distributed from many different international retailers.
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