MANIFESTO

Micaela Cometa investigates the intersection between materiality, corporeality, and natural forces through a practice grounded in expanded painting. Her work integrates volcanic and organic materials—ash, lava, sand, salt, and pigments—transforming the pictorial surface into a site of physical and symbolic exchange.

Influenced by the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote, Cometa’s process reflects geological and emotional stratifications, where accumulation, erosion, and gesture mirror states of memory and identity. Her paintings function as embodied spaces, oscillating between fragility and resistance, intimacy and elemental power. Through a neo-expressionist vocabulary, Cometa challenges traditional painting by allowing matter itself to act as a narrative agent, proposing a direct and sensorial encounter between artwork, environment, and viewer.