Marieta Ferber

About

Marieta Ferber is a Brazilian artist based between London and São Paulo. With a background in design and architecture, she has worked with and experimented across a diverse range of materials and scales, including wood, metal, and bulk materials like concrete, creating spaces and objects. Her work unfolds in three dimensions, aligning with sculptural language.

Her work explores the relationship between public and private spaces. She sees public space as a crucial realm for political action and freedom — a place where independent thinking can emerge outside of established ideologies. While observing the cities she passes through, she collects elements of urban infrastructure, recording their historical dimensions and idiosyncratic functionalities. These gathered fragments form a kind of personal lexicon — an evolving archive of overlooked urban forms.

Interested in creating sculptures that question pre-established boundaries and the limits they impose, she replicates historically meaningful architectural elements and familiar objects, decontextualizing them from their usual locations and materials. In doing so, she seeks to draw attention to the things we use every day but often do not see—like a handrail or a brush—questioning our roles and relationships with the places where we live, while guiding us toward new ways of thinking and acting

Reflecting the core of her conceptual research, her practice subverts material expectations by pushing the limits of matter itself – shaping organic clay into implausible formal structures and treating rigid materials as if they were malleable. Her work seeks to blur boundaries by dissolving distinctions between materials, between public and private – in short, all forms of liminality.