.jpg)
Susanna Fiona Murray, visual artist
Statement
My artistic practice gives shape to the invisible: unspoken emotions, forgotten memories, archetypes that haunt the body and the home.
Using staged photography, archival fragments and symbolic objects, I create images and visual devices that trace thresholds—between inner and outer, visible and hidden, memory and ritual. My language moves between narrative and symbol, autobiography and myth, psyche and matter.
My works inhabit quiet, unsettling territories: the wounded feminine, the mask, death, forgotten genealogies, and depression as a solar eclipse. I approach images as psychic spaces—less representation, more evocation.
Fairy tale and trauma, silence and voice, wound and rite coexist in my work. Each piece is a visual threshold, a fragment to be crossed.
Ma pratique artistique cherche à donner forme à l’invisible : émotions non dites, mémoires effacées, archétypes qui hantent le corps et l’espace domestique.
À travers la photographie mise en scène, les fragments d’archives et les objets symboliques, je construis des images et des dispositifs visuels qui tracent des seuils — entre l’intime et le collectif, le visible et l’occulté, la mémoire et le rituel. Mon langage oscille entre narration et symbole, autobiographie et mythe, psyché et matière.
Mes œuvres habitent des territoires silencieux et troublants : le féminin blessé, le masque, la mort, les généalogies oubliées, la dépression envisagée comme une éclipse solaire. Je conçois l’image comme un espace psychique — non pas une simple représentation, mais une évocation.
Conte et traumatisme, silence et voix, blessure et rituel coexistent dans mon travail. Chaque pièce devient un seuil visuel, un fragment à traverser.
Biography
Susanna Fiona Murray is an Italian-British visual artist. Her research revolves around the notion of threshold—between identity and memory, body and psyche, what remains and what is lost. Through staged photography, archival fragments, symbolic objects and fragmented narratives, she creates silent, intimate, and often unsettling visual worlds.
Murray approached photography in 2016, furthering her training through courses and workshops with artists and photographers active in the contemporary scene. She furthered her training in portrait and fashion photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where she developed a personal approach to staging as a poetic and identity-driven gesture.
In 2025, she created the project After Us during an artistic residency at the Archaeological Section of the Oliveriani Museums in Pesaro, in collaboration with Centrale Fotografia. The work weaves together ancient funerary rituals, collective memory, and personal loss, exploring the threshold between life and death through symbolic photography and installation.
Among her major projects are The Dianara, a series that reinterprets the archetypal figure of the Janara (a witch from Italian folklore) to explore the repressed aspects of the feminine; Mrs. Hollow is coming to play, a visual fairy tale about social masks and emotional emptiness; and About Mary, a photographic narrative that revisits family memory and migration through the belongings of her Irish great-grandmother.
Her work was selected for Artist Italian Collection 2020 curated by Italy Photo Award. Her practice unfolds between poetic gesture, visual research, and emotional materiality. For her, the image becomes a ritual device—a way to touch what has not yet found a voice.
Murray lives and works in Pesaro. She holds an MA in Psychology from the University of Bologna.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Sono ciò che indosso?", group exhibition, Roma Fotografia, Castel Sant’Angelo, Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Roma, Italy
2022 "Out of blindness", group exhibition, Galleria Condominio Arte, Milano, Italy
2022 "The closest thing to us", solo exhibition, Passaggi Festival, Fano, Italy
2022 "Prova di trasmissioni" group exhibition, Centrale Festival, Fano, Italy
2022 "Specie di spazi", group exhibition, Treviso, Italy
2022 "Siamo tutt* Artemide", Sorelle Festival, group exhibition, Faenza, Italy
2020 "Home", group exhibition, Rome, Italy
2020 “Macula Lab Experience _4”, group exhibition, Pesaro, Italy
2019 “Gavardiana 2019”, group exhibition, Pesaro, Italy
2019 “Ethereal: A Daily Poetry”, group exhibition, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris, France
2017 “Macula Lab Experience _1”, group exhibition, Pesaro, Italy
AWARDS
2023 second prize for "Sono ciò che indosso?", Roma Fotografia, Roma
2020 shortlisted for IMP Festival Padova, Italy Photo Awards
2020 shortlisted for “Home”, LoosenArt, Roma
2019 shortlisted for Anatomie, Percorsi Fotosensibili
EDUCATION
M.A. in Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
.jpg)
