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, particularly the female body, exposing the social, political, and cultural forces embedded in these images.

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

Her paintings are created through layered oil techniques that alternate between addition and subtraction, using solvents to generate transparencies and to reveal the physical relationship between surface and gesture. This method mirrors her conceptual focus on the act of looking: in Cinotti’s work, vision is never neutral, but a charged space where desire, vulnerability, and attention intersect.

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