{"id":34315,"date":"2026-01-25T00:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=34315"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:38:32","slug":"marc-foloni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2026\/01\/25\/marc-foloni\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Foloni"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34315\" class=\"elementor elementor-34315\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0caf497 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0caf497\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97d9307 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"97d9307\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 1990<br>\nWhere do you live: S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<br>\nYour education: Bachelor\u2019s degree in Communications with a Master\u2019s in Neuroscience<br>\nDescribe your art in three words: Psychological \u00b7 Liminal \u00b7 Ambiguous<br>\nYour discipline: Painting and Installation Art<br>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/marcfoloni\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a70f843 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a70f843\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fb68e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3fb68e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34296 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/main-11-e1768484491118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/main-11-e1768484491118.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/main-11-e1768484491118-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/main-11-e1768484491118-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/main-11-e1768484491118-600x468.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/h4><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your work often exists between abstraction and figuration. How do you personally navigate this threshold, and what does it allow you to express that a more defined image would not?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My process begins intuitively, guided by impulse rather than preparation. I work without sketches, allowing the image to emerge as a quiet transmission of inner experience. What remains unresolved\u2014between what is shown and what is suggested\u2014invites the viewer into their own reading. The titles stay minimal, because the work is meant to be felt before it is understood.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recurring figure in your practice functions almost like an alter ego. When did this persona first emerge, and how has it evolved over time?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2015, I was in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, and had already held my first exhibition in Brazil, still working in a style different from my current one. The month I spent there with my partner at the time was so intense and transformative that it resulted in a series of 40 watercolors. It was there that I found my style\u2014the forms, the gestures, my artistic self. Time passed, but the pattern remained and continues to manifest autonomously, always in variation, yet anchored by a constant.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34297 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-2-600x853.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Marc Foloni | Black White Wing<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of your figures appear androgynous or zoomorphic. What role does ambiguity of identity play in your exploration of the subconscious?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am deeply influenced by psychoanalysis and psychology. Everything carries meaning, whether I understand it rationally or not\u2014I can be part animal, part man, part woman, part everything, and so can every human being. My method of painting as an act of speech creates moments I prefer to leave open, allowing the viewer to discover, reinterpret, or identify with them.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34301 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-600x843.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Marc Foloni | Black White Wing<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">In White, Black, Wing, you restrict yourself to a black-and-white palette. What does this radical reduction make possible conceptually and emotionally?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every absence carries meaning. I like to say a lot with very little, and I believe this series expresses exactly that. Joy, intensity, pain, love, freedom, and doubt\u2014universal feelings. Here, the intensity lies precisely in the absence of color, control versus risk, containment versus flight, which still creates harmony and balance.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34298 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-3-600x850.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Marc Foloni | Black White Wing<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">The eye is a persistent motif in this series. Do you see it more as a symbol of perception, vulnerability, or surveillance\u2014or something else entirely?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The eye can be everything; it serves as a powerful metaphor for our generation. At times it relates to surveillance, but more often to vulnerability and openness\u2014still strong, yet exposed. In dialogue with the wing, it suggests awareness and introspection rather than control, existing quietly, fragile, and unresolved.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-4-600x855.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Marc Foloni | Black White Wing<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your lines often feel both decisive and fragile. How important is the physical gesture of drawing or painting in conveying psychological tension?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I paint on the floor, feeling my body in contact with the surface, immersed in a silence that can last minutes, hours, or even days. Afterwards, I contemplate, compare, and try to understand what I\u2019ve created. I believe each work is a fragment of my life that I don\u2019t wish to express in words. Strength and fragility are always in harmony, in one way or another.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marc-Foloni-Black-White-Wing-5-600x850.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Marc Foloni | Black White Wing<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">You describe the works as resisting fixed meaning. What kind of role do you hope the viewer takes on when encountering these images?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, the most magical aspect of my artistic style is listening to the meanings others bring to the work. This not only makes me happy, but also leads me to reconsider what I hadn\u2019t seen myself. When someone tries to decipher a piece and shares their interpretation, it means they felt something\u2014and that deeply satisfies me. I prefer to ask people, \u201cWhat do you see here?\u201d After ten years as a visual artist, I still hear completely new interpretations of works from 2016 or 2018 and think, wow, you\u2019ve opened something no one had ever seen before.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of birth: 1990 Where do you live: S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil Your education: Bachelor\u2019s degree in Communications with a Master\u2019s in Neuroscience Describe your art in three words: Psychological \u00b7 Liminal \u00b7 Ambiguous Your discipline: Painting and Installation Art Instagram Your work often exists between abstraction and figuration. 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