Francesca Casu

°1987, Sassari, Italy.
Lives and works in Brussels since 2019.

Francesca Casu’s work is profoundly influenced by the wildness of her native Sardinian landscape and it’s ancient cultural history. Working directly from nature she translates the experience of long meditative walks into the obsessive translation of sketchbooks and drawings. The fauna and flora find their space alongside the myths and legends of an ancient culture that even the Romans could not conquer. Casu’s language is a unique mix of Sardinian ancestral symbols and shamanic traditions searching for their voice amidst the challenges of contemporary civil society. The work is rooted in the subjectivity of fragile experience whilst also speaks about a universal conscie