Maria Lunetto is a Berlin- and New York–based textile artist working across sculpture, wall-based works, and installation. Her practice examines how systems of support — emotional, relational, and material — are built, strained, and ultimately fail.

Drawing on a background in psychology and behavioural science, she works with textiles, wire, and second-hand materials to construct structures that hold just long enough to reveal their limits. Fabric is pulled, weighted, pierced, or stitched into place; wire binds, stabilises, or cuts through. These physical tensions mirror the social and psychological pressures that shape how people contain themselves, adapt, and break under expectation.

Rather than representing specific narratives, Lunetto builds conditions. Her works operate as environments in which softness is forced into alignment, support becomes provisional, and surfaces begin to show stress. Seams, folds, and protrusions remain visible, making the labour and vulnerability of holding together impossible to hide.

Materials are chosen not for neutrality but for their history and resistance. Often reused or worn, they bring traces of previous function into new systems of constraint. Through processes such as sewing, knotting, weighting, and assembling, Lunetto allows material behaviour to direct the work, letting tension, sagging, and distortion determine form.