Marisa Rufino is a visual artist whose practice bridges sculpture, textile art, and traditional craftsmanship.

Born and raised in a small coastal village in Portugal, she was deeply influenced by the rhythms of nature, agriculture, and the tactile world of craftmanship. Her work is a sensory exploration of texture, time, and human experience, where materiality becomes a language of memory and transformation.

From an early age, Rufino discovered an extraordinary sensitivity to texture an ability to perceive it not only through touch but as an internal sensation, an emotional and almost visceral experience. Textures are, for her, more than surfaces; they are carriers of meaning, embodiments of moments, and echoes of the impermanent..

Influenced by her personal history where the passage of time and the fragility of existence were ever-present, Rufino's art is a meditation on impermanence, the spaces we fill, and those we leave empty. Bringing importance and awareness to the outside inside, making us, again, one with nature and bringing the organic to Sterile environments.

Through sculpture and textile techniques, she creates works that challenge the boundaries between form and softness, structure and fluidity, presence and absence. Rufino's art invites the viewer to engage beyond sight-to feel, to remember, and to experience texture as a profound, living entity woven into the fabric of life itself.