Marta Ferracin

Flux_Unearthed

.

Single channel video installation with sound, 1200 (W) x 1500 (H) x 60 (D) mm, 2024-2025

Marta Ferracin is an Italian born, Sydney based contemporary multimedia artist whose practice merges art, science and technology. Driven by an interest in ephemeral natural phenomena and material agency, she seeks to engender embodied experiences and heightened sensory responses to biological and site-specific artificial living habitats and microhabitats. By stimulating a phenomenological synthesis of life and living Ferracin encourages an actively sentient environment awareness. She connects and co-works with nature to enhance ecological wellbeing and, in turn, foster biodiversity through a mutually beneficial approach to coexistence.

Since 2021, Ferracin has been developing and exhibiting her ongoing environmental research project as an exploration of the evolutionary and environmental responsiveness of lichens, microorganisms, and microhabitats, with the intention of enhancing symbiotic relationships between humans and the environment.