Bea Bonafini

Through painting, tapestry, ceramics, and drawing, Bea Bonafini investigates the porous boundaries between states of being. Her work inhabits a constant state of flux, responding to its surroundings and reflecting the ever-shifting nature of identity, which is continuously reshaped by experience and context. Her practice bridges cultures, blending symbols, materials, and visual languages to dissolve rigid distinctions. Bonafini’s creations function as living surfaces—fragmented, mutable, and perpetually in motion—where gestures, textures, and forms migrate, shedding their original significance and reemerging in unexpected ways. By layering and reconfiguring these elements, she revitalizes cross-cultural mythologies, merging them into contemporary and deeply personal narratives. Oscillating between monumental and intimate formats, her works establish transient sanctuaries, protective spaces that evoke a lost or suspended spirituality. Drawing inspiration from archaeology and literature, she constructs environments where histories, myths, and identities are constantly deconstructed and reassembled, embracing impermanence and the fluidity of human experience. In this way, her practice becomes a meditation on transformation, memory, and the interconnectedness of all things. ...