Martina Gagliardi is a young emerging artist with a master’s degree in painting from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.
Her transfer to the city of Turin was decisive for experiencing and observing the large fruit and vegetable market of Porta Palazzo, from which she elaborated reflections on the process of metamorphosis of products: from their fresh arrival in a box to their becoming deteriorated waste. Here, the beauty discovered in the fragility and imperfect evolution of things made them special at the moment of their decay.
<<For me, these rickety boxes, these bleached and faded vegetables, are emblems of rebirth, not death. Art is this possibility of resurrection, of rewriting the world (…) The market at daybreak shows the strength of the products, at dusk, instead, all its fragility. It could well be valid as a metaphor for human life.>>
