Selected work — 2019 / 2025

Images as
visual rebuses.

Drawing from a multidisciplinary background in fashion design and photography, Marta Scavone composes meticulously staged scenes where symbolic objects, vivid colour and theatrical framing become a language. Each image is a puzzle to be slowly decoded, a mirror of contemporary obsessions, fragilities and desires.

Work

5 series

Way Out

Way Out

2026

A surreal photographic series reflecting on the concept of escape: the possibility of withdrawing from situations that do not belong to us, do not fulfil us, or no longer feel right. Frontal, suspended architectural views — each marked by two openings, where signs, walls and barriers suggest that leaving is impossible, or that one should not. A pair of shoes left on the ground becomes a metaphor for the ability to choose, and to find the means, even those we do not believe we possess, to move beyond what holds us back.

Bazaar of the Unconscious

Bazaar of the Unconscious

2025 - ongoing

A surreal self-portrait series exploring the threshold between unconscious and conscious. Each image is a visual rebus — a theatrical composition of symbolic objects and vivid colors — that asks the viewer to decode the unsaid and uncover the message hidden within, reflecting on the individual and contemporary society.

Fertile Vegetation

Fertile Vegetation

2023

A staged photography project exploring why a woman of childbearing age might choose not to pursue motherhood. Set in a dreamlike, artificial woodland, the series follows an idealized chronology — conception, awareness, fetal development, breaking of waters, labor, childbirth — and the hesitations tied to each stage, opening space for alternative paths and a more inclusive discourse on motherhood.

Pandemic Fashion

Pandemic Fashion

2020

A theatrical self-portrait series in which the artist embodies, one by one, the twelve most sought-after products in Italy during the first 2020 lockdown — wearing them as eccentric garments and accessories in ironic, performative poses. Each outfit is uniquely designed and entirely eco-sustainable, a deliberate counterpoint to the waste and exploitation of fast fashion.

Other Work

Other Work

2019—2023

A constellation of unique images created between 2019 and 2023 — experiments in costume, painting and self-portrait that map the genesis of a constructed photographic language.