(...) On canvas, flowers and fruits are immobile. Yet they can change in other ways. This is one of the assumptions that Marta Ravasi places at the basis of her painting. If we were to stick to the passage of time in which she commits herself to creating her work, we would not be dealing with art but with everyday life. In the moments when Marta pauses, the flowers lose their petals and the fruits decay. What she nourishes with her painting, stroke by stroke, is an autonomous time: it is born in the energy she expends in creating the work and finds expression when it is completed. (...) Excerpt from the text, Changing Otherwise, by Davide Dal Sasso

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