Francesca Romana Cicia is an Italian artist based in Rome. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation,
exploring memory, absence, and the generative potential of the void.
“Absence is not negation, but the very material of form.”
Francesca Romana Cicia (b. 1994, Rome) is an Italian contemporary artist living and working in Rome. She graduated in Decoration from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, where she developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work contributes to the evolving landscape of contemporary Italian art, with a focus on material research and conceptual exploration.
Cicia’s research centres on memory and its mechanisms of formation, exploring the void as a generative space rather than an absence. Her works appear as incomplete presences—open structures in which fragments, gaps, and discontinuities shape a visual language suspended between what remains and what disappears. Through this process, memory emerges as an unstable constellation of traces, continuously reconstructed through perception and time.
A defining element of her practice is the use of blue, which becomes a recurring and symbolic material. In her work, blue functions as a metaphor for the mind, silence, and the hidden dimensions of experience, creating immersive surfaces that evoke both depth and introspection.
Through painting, sculpture, and installation, Francesca Romana Cicia creates works that invite a contemplative engagement, where material, colour, and space converge. Presented within the context of London Craft Week, her practice reflects a broader dialogue between contemporary art and material experimentation, positioning her work within an international discourse on memory, perception, and form.
