STORIES FROM THE ATELIER: FERNANDA SOZZI
- eliane de luca peres
- Aug 23
- 2 min read
fernanda and i met virtually through another incredible artist, isabella blanco, a little over a year ago. her work quickly caught my eye (no pun intended!), and even though she doesn’t make rings at the moment, she has promised me that she will one day! as an art lover and a strong believer in repurposing objects from the past, her pieces immediately spoke to me. she is also funny, outspoken, sweet, extremely loyal, and a fierce mama bear. it is always a pleasure to talk to her and share the good, the bad, and the ugly. i cannot wait to meet her in person soon. this is fernanda’s story. enjoy!
i was born in Guarulhos, São Paulo, and my mother was one of the people most responsible for my encounter with art. she was an art teacher and, from an early age, taught me to draw what i felt before i even understood what it meant to create. perhaps that was where my relationship with art began: not as an attempt to reproduce the world, but as a way of interpreting it.
i was not a child with many friendships, and i carried none of them from school into university. my path was built through encounters with people who arrived, stayed for a while, and somehow left something of themselves in me. at university, where i studied business administration at Mackenzie in São Paulo, i met people with different personalities, stories, and ways of seeing the world. these encounters taught me that sometimes there are no words capable of explaining what we feel. sometimes, a look can translate what we cannot say. the pieces featuring brown eyes are a reflection of those people who did not know how to speak, but knew how to be transparent through the way they looked at the world.
we all carry a singular way of interpreting reality, and this perspective can transform our relationship with things, with others, and with ourselves. perhaps creating is precisely that: gathering fragments with gold, as if transforming what was broken until something unique emerges.
my artistic identity was born from this movement of welcoming what has been broken, reorganizing its parts, and revealing a form that did not exist before. my creative process begins with the search for objects that carry an emotional identity: old tableware, forgotten plates, and fragments of vintage porcelain marked by time and invisible stories. in the studio, i bring these memories together through mixed techniques, combining broken fragments and whole plates with metal, hand-painted eyes, and surrealist elements.
i do not create despite the fragments, but because of them. i preserve the marks they carry and allow them to become part of something new. by transforming objects from the past into jewelry and conceptual sculptures, i give discarded objects another possibility of existence. for me, there is no more profound form of expression than transforming these fragments into pieces that can be carried with us, wherever we go.
