Marta Abbott is a multidisciplinary Czech-American artist who was born in Amsterdam, grew up in the U.S., and lives and works in Rome. Her practice is rooted in a personal curiosity about themes from nature and our human experience of the non-human natural world. Abbott moves between realms of light and shadow to explore how nature influences the ways spirit gives form to matter, and how we understand our earthly existence. She offers a filter made of time, and notions of alchemy and transformation, through which to view the world and identify the invisible paths that connect heaven and ground. Drawn to organic materials as instruments of expression but also as voices that contribute to the stories she wants to tell, Abbott often works with natural inks or pigments she prepares herself, analogue photographic methods, and clay. Ancient and antique mediums used in a contemporary context inform a practice which is led by intuition but built upon knowledge.
