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The artistic research of Claudia Di Francesco (b. 1992, Rome, Italy) unfolds through a process of meticulous and alchemical experimentation. Through an evocative, almost ritualistic process, the artist summons memories and impressions that belong to that liminal realm separating the personal unconscious from collective experience.
Her visionary scenes are inhabited by unusual animals and disproportionate figures, particles of a world that transforms and transmits.
Bodily traces, fluids, plaster casts, resins, and silicones are some of the materials used to shape the artifacts and imagined archaeologies created by Di Francesco, where figures with archaic features transcend their form, dissolving into translucent, timeless bodies.
In her ethereal paintings, the artist reveals through auroral fields of color remembrances and premonitions, speaking of an otherworldly place—intimate but never saccharine. The figures in her paintings, whether real or imagined, evoke the indissoluble connection with nature, the body, and the cyclical nature of life and death. These are angels, sometimes spirits, penitent souls in search of comfort within the timeless narrative of the hero’s journey and inevitable fate.
Claudia Di Francesco graduated in 2018 in Visual Arts – Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. The following year, she worked as a technical assistant for the three-year painting program. Since 2021, she has served as co-curator and graphic designer at Latte Project Space, a space dedicated to promoting emerging artists. She is currently a lecturer in Graphic Design at FIDI – Florence Institute of Design International.
In 2022, she participated in the 7th edition of Fragellae – La Piccola Scultura, in collaboration with the Museum of Archaeology, and exhibited at Capriola Art Week at the Castromediano Museum in Lecce. She was a finalist for Yicca 2022, exhibiting at New Art Space Gallery in Venice.
In 2023, she participated in A Journey Between East and West at Villa Strozzi and the Bellini Museums in Florence, and in The Childhood of the Wizard at the Hermann Hesse Museum in Switzerland. She was a finalist for the Luigi Candiani Prize at SAC – Space for Contemporary Art in Milan. She also took part as a visual artist and coordinator in the artist residency project Connection, presented at Galleria Cartavetra in Florence.
Among the main group exhibitions she has recently participated in are: La parete che resta (2025) at Galleria Cartavetra in Florence; Arte e Architettura in Simbiosi (2024) at Wuhan Wanda Space in China; The Garden’s Heart at Palazzo Olivetti Rason in Florence; and Oscillations 2024, a multi-site project spread across Palazzo Ruschi Pavesi, Palazzo Sforza, and Palazzo Buttini, curated by NoGallery. In the same year, she also took part in the group exhibition Preziose Miniature at the Municipal Historical Archive of Palermo, and was selected as a finalist for the Edipiderma Prize, exhibited at FORO STUDIO in Milan.
Currently the artist lives and works in Florence.