Emma Kovo's practice focuses on imprints and traces, which she captures and then transcribes using engraving, silkscreen, photogram, kallitype and collage.

Plants, mineral fragments, fossilized textures and samples from her research form a repertoire from which she draws to fuel new experiments. The process is circular: each series feeds the next, evolving forms and uses through successive transformations.

Rather than archiving or representing, her work allows matter to manifest itself on the edge between erasure and persistence, and questions what the artistic gesture can still capture or preserve.

Her palette is based on a broad monochromatic of deep blacks, earthy browns and achrome values, accentuating contrasts, highlighting textures and blurring references of scale, from the micro to the macroscopic.

Matter remains active: forms evolve, shift and recompose. Nothing is set in stone; each stage retains the flexibility of an open construction site. This plasticity allows us to observe the transitions from one state to another and the gestures that provoke them, nurturing a constantly renewed exchange.