Martina Cinotti lives and works between Milan and her hometown. Her artistic practice explores the human body as a permeable, shifting interface between subjectivity and environment. Through painting, she investigates how visual culture has historically shaped and often distorted  the representation of the human form, especially the female body, revealing the underlying social, political, and cultural dynamics of these choices.

Cinotti’s work dissolves the boundaries between body and landscape, giving form to a sensorial dimension where identity becomes secondary to perception. Her figures emerge or recede into natural elements branches, water, earth  as if the skin itself could merge with the world. The body, in her vision, is no longer a defined object but a mutable field, suspended between visibility and erasure, presence and disappearance.

Her paintings are made through layered oil techniques that alternate between addition and subtraction, using solvents to create transparencies and uncover the physical relationship between surface and gesture. This method reflects her conceptual focus on the act of looking: in Cinotti’s work, seeing is never neutral — it is a charged space where desire, vulnerability, and attention intertwine.

Each canvas becomes an invitation to slow down, to feel one’s own gaze, and to question the fragile boundary between observer and observed.