Cyrielle Marchetti

Cyrielle Marchetti's work is intimately intertwined with the natural world, and more especially with the zoological one. Through the shapes she creates, both mesmerising and anguishing, she explores the power of metamorphosis of bodies and organisms and questions the extinction and de-extinction of the species. She is especially interested in the human desire for observation and classification of nature exhibited in the cabinet of curiosities and natural history museums. She plays with reality and fiction, abstraction, scientific accuracy and imagination. She experiments with collapsing the boundaries between natural history and fictional narratives. Her installations stage intertwined forms of unfinished bestiaries of an unknown future or unrealized past, composed of bio symbiotic species of animals, hybrid entities, creatures from the vegetal and mineral realms.

Cyrielle Marchetti is a French plastic artist currently based in Lisbon. Her main media is clay and ceramics but she also works with paper and collected materials from urban or natural areas. Her practice takes the form of sculptural installations. Her artwork is intimately intertwined with the natural world. She was originally trained in Paris in foreign literature and languages. She turned to sculpture and graduated in Ceramics at the art school Ar.co (Escola de Arte e Comunicação Visual) in Lisbon where she has been living since 2017. She is featured in collective and individual exhibitions in Portugal and Europe.