UPROOTED

At the heart of Marta Feyles’ practice is an exploration of physical and psychological proximity and distance. Entanglements, also known as ‘grovigli’ in her native Italian tongue, are a key device in her work through which she delves into concepts of geographic displacement, borders, perimeters, and boundaries. 

Using string, paper, film, and found objects, Marta creates intricate sculptures, drawings, and mixed media installations that use her personal experiences as a starting point from which to explore notions of quantum entanglements and networkism. 

Drawing on her family life growing up in Italy and the uprooting that occurred when she moved to the UK, she enacts crafts and trades that are nested in memories of home, play, family, and loss.  The strict religious rites and the symbolism of her Catholic upbringing inform her approach as she strives to overcome the physical impossibility of compressing time and geographical space. Marta describes this process as her own Ariadne’s thread: a game in which gaps, voids, and liminalities become generative forces in themselves, manifesting in complex, votive, and intimate works.