Filippo Muzi Falconi approaches the relationship between material and history through his longstanding fascination with the natural world. He spent childhood summers on his father's farm in Liguria, exploring the landscape and making things from what he found there. Today, he continues to gather fallen timber, wild clay and other natural materials, responding to their particular qualities as he develops his sculptures. Some of his objects recall ancient ritual artefacts or votive offerings. Their forms reflect his interest in animist traditions and in the ways earlier cultures imagined their place within the natural world. Muzi Falconi has spoken of wanting to restore a sense of wonder to our understanding of nature, whose complexity continually exceeds human knowledge. He also co-runs Apua, an artist residency on the family farm, where the local landscape becomes the starting point for collective experimentation.