Chiara De Pace (Turin, 1996) lives and works between Italy and abroad. After completing a Master’s degree in Media Communication with a specialization in Visual Communication at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, she embarked on a path that intertwines humanistic training with artistic practice. Her subsequent experience at the Barcelona Academy of Art (2023–2024) allowed her to deepen her skills in drawing and sculpture, consolidating a research trajectory developed alongside artists and masters such as William M. Ruller (Paris, 2023) and Giorgio Fasano, a master of modeling and ceramics.

Her research takes shape through sculpture, utilizing a language that reworks the motifs and forms of archaic art, particularly the iconographies of prehistoric sculpture. Among her primary theoretical references is the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas—her studies on feminine symbolism and the matrilineal origins of ancient civilizations—alongside the traditions of Indigenous and Native American peoples, from whom she draws further symbolic and ritual inspiration.

This deep inspiration stems from their profound pacifism and sacred connection to nature; furthermore, it is essential for the artist to use her practice to give voice to communities that have historically endured, and continue to face, systemic dynamics of exploitation, genocide, and oppression.