Margherita Raso moves between weaving, sculpture, and installation practices. Her work often begins with Jacquard textiles, used as a tool to investigate the surface of objects and the ways in which an image can be perceived in space. Through the construction of microscopic reliefs and woven patterns, her works inhabit a boundary zone between painting and sculpture, generating surfaces that oscillate between image and matter.
At the same time, textile becomes the starting point for a series of sculptures in ceramic, bronze, and cast iron. In these works the fabric is often sacrificed through processes of combustion or casting, allowing new forms to emerge that retain the trace of the original body. The loss of the textile thus becomes a process of transformation, in which the echo of the initial surface continues to exist within the new material.
Born in Lecco in 1991, Margherita Raso lives and works between Milan and New York. After studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, she co-founded the artist-run space Armada in Milan in 2014. Her research develops through an ongoing dialogue between traditional techniques, industrial processes, and a reflection on the relationship between labor, landscape, and contemporary production.
