Manu Mara

Manuela Marazzani, based in Turin, signs her work as Manu Mara. Her research revolves around glass, chosen as a living material to be explored through kiln-fusing: a process of layering, repeated firings, and painterly interventions that make each piece unique.

Glass, worked in multiple stages, is built up and transformed until it becomes a narrative surface. The result is jewellery and objects where lightness and structure coexist, conceived to be worn while retaining a strong sculptural presence. Settings, often in brass and bronze, accompany the material without overpowering it.

Her most recent research takes shape in the Wild collection: plates and jewellery dedicated to the animal world. Not domestic or reassuring animals, but free, sometimes enigmatic presences that inhabit a more instinctive imaginary. Figures that emerge from the glass through overlays and painterly marks, like apparitions.
Each subject returns a gaze: a silent encounter that activates memory, symbol, and perception.