Marietta de Toledo
Reason and Passion, Copper wires and fabric scraps stitched into talagarça, 140 x 290 cm
Marietta de Toledo (Brazil) is a visual artist whose practice operates at the intersection of ceramics, textile art, and mixed media. Her research explores the relationships between territory, memory, and materiality, understanding materials, whether natural or discarded, as carriers of ecological, cultural, and affective narratives. She uses walking as a methodology for observation and creation, combining visual documentation, writing, and material processes to develop situated approaches to landscape and its temporalities.
She holds a degree in Fine Arts from FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado) and postgraduate certificates in Contemporary Artistic Practices (FAAP) and Walking as a Method for Art and Education (A Casa Tombada). Her practice integrates field research, experimentation with clay, fibers, pigments, and found objects, and critical reflections on contemporary ecologies.
Her work has been presented at institutions including FUNARTE, the Brazilian Art Museum (MAB-FAAP), CasaGaleria, the Oswald de Andrade Cultural Center, and the French Alliance of Salvador. In 2021, she participated in an artist residency in Epecuén, Argentina, where she developed site-specific interventions addressing themes of memory and territory. Her most recent solo exhibition, Das Negativas: Bordados, Correntes, Tecituras (The Negatives: Embroideries, Chains, and Weavings), was held at CasaGaleria and Oficina de Arte in 2026.
As an educator, she leads workshops on appropriation, collage, textile art, and creative processes, integrating art history, contemporary techniques, and sensory-based experiences that encourage critical and poetic engagements with materials.
Girar Series: Double in Jute and Wool, Crochet chains sewn onto jute. 88 x 136 cm
I am interested in engaging with textile and ceramic practices. During the residency, I hope to explore the territory through walking and the collection of industrial and natural objects encountered along the way. I am interested in how these materials might function as fragments of a journey, carrying traces of the time and space traversed. Through their gathering and arrangement, I hope to create ways of reconstructing or reimagining a path, making tangible the experience of movement through the landscape.