Cristina Marignoli was born in Spoleto, Italy. She moved to London in 1987 where she graduated first from Central St Martins in 1995, and later from the Royal Academy of Art in 2000. She has her own studio in London East End where she currently works; she regularly exhibit her work in the London EastEnd open Studios; Cristina also had a number of exhibitions including Metro Gallery London, Focus Gallery Maidenhead. A few thoughts on the work The more personal one is, the more one will transcend the self into something universal, achieving a fusion of subject and object. That is what makes art transcend its own time, making it relevant to any age. Otherwise it is another way to anaesthetize oneself, to become trapped in a labyrinth of over-conceptualisation and over-rationalisation, as a way to avoid confronting one's existence. Cristina's work is constructed layer upon layer, as there are different levels of consciousness, and rests on a dynamic balance between the passage of time and a sense of immediacy and now-ness... the eternal present. The structures are projections of the mind, labyrinths where a sense of anxiety prevents one from reaching the centre, where the body has become a stranger. Art for Cristina has become too much tied by language, while for her one of its main powers lies in its ability to transcend words, logic and concepts to enter into a symbolic dimension where things are not to be supported by a critical discourse, but by their power to move.

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