Insights features work by Sara Liz Marty since 2019 that explores identity, memory and digital transformation through a hybrid practice that chanches between textile craft and digitality.

As part of the Insights exhibition in the Cantonal Administration Building of the Canton of Zug, artist Sara Liz Marty provides an insight into her creative work since 2019. Works from the projects Substance of Magic and Forget Me Not address questions of identity, memory and the relationship between physical and digital reality in an impressive way.
In Substance of Magic (2019), Sara Liz Marty explores fluid gender identities and sexual orientation. Building on personal experiences and a cultural and social engagement with bisexual identity, the artist explores how self-images are reconstructed in digital space. Using photogrammetry and virtual reality technologies, she creates digital sculptures and 3D portraits that question and dissolve gender-specific characteristics. The transition from the physical to the digital self reveals a field of tension between belonging, wholeness and blurring. The works combine textile printing, embroidery and literary fragments and open up a multidimensional perspective on what it means to be human.
The project Forget Me Not (2023-2025) is a personal exploration of memory, identity and change in the wake of Marty's mother's Alzheimer's disease. Since the diagnosis in 2021, joint walks have accompanied the development of this work. Conversations, observations and the fragile dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship flow into a series of portraits and symbolic motifs - above all the forget-me-not flower. As a symbol of memory and transience, it is used in digital 3D visualizations and textile works. The poetic combination of technology and traditional craftsmanship creates a special visual language between closeness and distance, clarity and dissolution.
Sara Liz Marty succeeds in realizing complex emotional processes and socially relevant themes with great visual precision and sensitivity. Her works invite us to reflect on our own memories, identities and our relationship to the digital self - quietly, profoundly and movingly.


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