JACQUELINE FERRANTE

Jacqueline Ferrante is a visual artist based in New York and Italy. Her work explores place, memory, and the passage of time through mark-making with natural materials sourced from the land. Rooted in a dialogue with the landscape, her practice reflects the beauty of imperfection and the quiet stories embedded in its surfaces.

Her recent solo exhibition,URBAN SKIN, curated by Francesca Rossi, delved into architectural and cultural memory using materials like charcoal, wine, and mineral pigments to evoke the layered surfaces of the city as a living archive.

Ferrante earned her degree in Art and Theater from Northeastern University. Her work has been exhibitedthroughout the United States and Europe, and she has completed residencies in New York, Ireland, andItaly. Her work is also part of the collection of The Haemimont Foundation, with locations in New York and Sofia, Bulgaria.

“During my time at DOMUS, my work has been shaped through lived experience, observation, and slow contact with the city. I am engaging with surfaces, sounds, and moments of exchange - through touch and trace, alongside audio gathered from surfaces as I work and from conversations within the community. Being in Galatina has drawn me toward the stories of tarantismo and toward movement as something uncontrollable, excessive, and necessary. I’m interested in how the body releases what it can no longer hold - whether named as illness, hysteria, trauma, or something else entirely. The work remains open, unfolding through attention, encounter, and time.”