Marta Figueiredo
Marta Figueiredo — 'Echoes of the unseen', Sculptural Mirror, 2025
Echoes of the Unseen interrogates the act of seeing, and the complex relationship between perception and lived experience. Mirrors have been used since ancient times and appear symbolically in mythology and storytelling, often embodying contradictions between appearance and experience - the rejection of singular truth. The artwork’s shape is suggestive of parts of the human body - where presence and absence coexist. Whilst the soft, organic fabric forms evoke the invisible sensations in the body, visceral yet restrained. By looking, this work asks: What does it mean to see oneself when what is felt remains unseen? How do we reconcile a reflection with the silent realities of the body?
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Marta Figueiredo is a Portuguese-born multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across design, sculpture, installation, and public art, she explores craft as a vessel for personal and collective narratives. Rooted in lived experience and cultural heritage, Figueiredo dissolves boundaries between design and art, and tradition and innovation. Her work fosters witnessing, transformation, and tactile engagement.
Figueiredo was awarded the 2024 Australian Furniture Design Award and the 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize. Her work has been exhibited at Melbourne Now, Sydney Contemporary, and internationally in Milan, Paris, Shanghai, and Belgium. She recently completed a major commission with Craft Victoria for Home Docklands.
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Main Gallery
March 15 - May 3 2025
A contemporary response to the heritage and legacies of craft practice, featuring the work of six diverse practitioners.
Material: aluminum, aged mirror, recycled textiles, pins
Dimensions: approx. 110 x 75 cm
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