In her artistic production, Marzia Migliora (Alessandria, Italy, 1972) uses a wide range of media that include photography, video sound, performance, installation and drawing. Her works originate from a deep interest in the individual person and their daily life. The recurrent themes in her research are memory as a tool for the present and the analysis of labour as a form of affirmation and participation in the social sphere. What emerges from this is a complex work, able to build shared experiences and to foster a strong intellectual involvement in the audience.
Between 2022 and 2023 Marzia Migliora was part of the art residency program activated by MAO.
As a space for experimentation and for expanding upon the meaning of the permanent collections, the museum invited Marzia Migliora to confront the works stored in the deposits. Starting with ritual objects and sculptures, the artist – with help from the museum’s staff – has created five site-specific tapestries that partially occupy the monumental entrance stairs of the museum. The tapestries were made from a big paper roll (130 x 9,140 cm) using frottage, collage and drawing.
“The concept of work that I am creating is a metaphorical and viable bridge between the collections preserved at the MAO and the contemporary world, in an attempt to re-read the relationship between cultures. My idea is to create a narrative in which imaginaries of different nature, era, culture, social, political, economic and religious context coexist in a single environment." Marzia Migliora
"The creative collaboration between Marzia Migliora and Giovanni Bonotto, within the framework of a museum planning that sees the artist's gaze and action, Bonotto's hand and head and the collection as a material of creation, takes the MAO into a virtuousand generousdimension of artistic production. The #maotempopresente has precisely the purpose of bringing the contemporaneity of know-how into the museum, thus creating interpretations and narrative functions that speak to the present: all of history as a gaze of today."Davide Quadrio, MAO Director.
The tapestry was created by Marzia Migliora with Giovanni Bonotto as part of the A Collection project for MAO.
