Isabella Ducrot (born 1931 in Naples) has lived in Rome for many years. Only beginning her artistic career later in life, her approach is extremely sensitive; the initial moment in the creation process of the works is tactile. Ducrot uses textiles and paper both as an artistic medium and as an artistic thread. She allows the material to become part of the image and so drains the fabric of its historical content treating it as pure matter. This exposes the materials’ hidden elements and its composition. Repetition is the subject and primary theme in many of her artworks. For Ducrot, this repetitive element becomes the object of representation.

Ducrot has an obsession with beauty to be found even in the most mundane every day objects. Her works are like laudative songs, seemingly light but cutting to the essence of life itself. They are an illustration of her open-mindedness to both foreign cultures and genres. In her work, painting, music and literature fuse to become a synthesis of the arts.

Isabella Ducrot’s solo shows include Sadie Coles HQ, London, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Belenius, Stockholm (both 2022), San Giuseppe alle Scalze a Pontecorvo, Napoli (2021), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2021 & 2019),T293, Rome (2023 & 2020), Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva (2023 & 2020), Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2019), Spazio Parlato, Palermo (2018) and Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2015).

In 2014 Ducrot had a major exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and in 1993 and 2011 she showed her work at the Venice Biennale. Recent Group exhibitions include Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (2022), Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, Villa Lontana, Rome (both 2021) and Standard, Oslo (2020) among others. Isabella Ducrot is also the author of numerous publications, including Women’s Life (2021), La stoffa a quadri (2019), Suonno. Il sonno e il sogno nella canzonenapoletana (2012), Fallaste Corazón (2012) and La Matassa Primordiale (2008).