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My practice reflects on interdependence, care, and the conditions that make participation possible, exploring how relationships between bodies and spaces can generate new forms of coexistence.

Through drawing, painting, and textile installations, I reinterpret archives and inherited visual heritage. By bringing bodies, symbols, folklore, and architecture into dialogue, I investigate how images shape memory, identity and conformity.

Between folk rituals and club culture, I see the space of celebration as a device through which bodies create belonging, express their identities, and experiment with forms of freedom and participation, RESISDANCE!

BIO

Cecilia Sammarco (Cosenza, 1989) is an Italian visual artist based in Rome. She graduated in Architecture from Sapienza University of Rome and later specialised in editorial illustration at Mimaster Illustrazione in Milan.

Since a spinal cord injury in 2019, she has painted using a custom-made hand strap that enables her to work with her paralysed hands.

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bogotá, and she has collaborated with international institutions, organisations and brands including BASE Milano, Outsider Art Fair, TEDx, Condé Nast, Vogue Italia, Il Sole 24 Ore, la Repubblica and UNIQLO.

Selected Collaborations

UNIQLO, Vogue.it, Istituto Italiano di Cutura Bogotà, Espacio KB, Tedx Leverano, BASE Milano, ROMADIFFUSA, Spring Attitude, THiRTYONE Design and Managment, Miscelanea Barcelona, Honiro Art Gallery, Le Dimore del Quartetto, ISDIN, Condé Nast, Cambi Aste, Galleria Rubin, Fondazione Brivio Sforza, Mulieris Magazine, Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, Domani Editoriale…

Selected Publications