Francesca Tulli’s paintings and sculptures have developed as parallel practices, linked by her personal interpretation of a complex and perceptive realism, balanced between the naturalistic and the surreal. Her paintings, in black-and-white or in bold colour, often depict lush domestic interiors which are seemingly comfortable, yet due to their tilted perspectives and unusual viewpoints, become strangely unsettling. Her final canvases show patterned rugs which appear to be moved by subterranean forces or mysteriously sucked into vortexes. In her sculptures, the artist’s sinuous figures are posed in dynamic equilibrium, sometimes existing as athletes or “mutated” creatures. Made from bronze, terracotta or plaster, her figures shift between classical and futuristic, integrated with different materials including rusty steel, photographs, sand, glass spheres and led-lights. Their faces are expressionless. They are beings which are simultaneously familiar and oth¬er-worldly, lost in their own profound thoughts but at the same time searching for their role as part of the bigger picture. | I dipinti e le sculture di Francesca Tulli si sono sviluppati come pratiche parallele, legate dalla sua personale interpretazione di un realismo complesso e percettivo, in equilibrio tra il naturalistico e il surreale. I suoi dipinti, in bianco e nero o in colori audaci, raffigurano spesso interni domestici che sembrano confortevoli, ma che, a causa delle loro prospettive inclinate e dei punti di vista inusuali, diventano stranamente inquietanti. Le sue ultime tele mostrano tappeti a motivi floreali che sembrano essere mossi da forze sotterranee o misteriosamente risucchiati in vortici. Nelle sue sculture, le snelle figure dell’artista sono poste in equilibrio dinamico, a volte come atleti o creature “mutate”. Realizzate in bronzo, terracotta o gesso, le sue figure oscillano tra il classico e il futuristico, integrate con materiali diversi tra cui acciaio arrugginito, fotografie, sabbia, sfere di vetro e luci a led. Le figure di Tulli sono esseri che sono allo stesso tempo familiari e ultraterreni.