Marisa Merz: A Pioneer of Arte Povera and the Poetics of Domesticity Born in Turin, Italy, in 1926, Marisa Merz’s life and art were inextricably linked to a profound exploration of space, memory, and the everyday. Her journey, marked by a quiet intensity and a deliberate rejection of conventional artistic norms, ultimately positioned her as one of the most significant figures within the radical Arte Povera movement of the 1960s – a movement that sought to challenge the established hierarchies of the art world and redefine what constituted “art” itself. Despite initially facing relative obscu…