Francesca Heart is a Milan-based artist working across sound, movement, installation, and somatic research. With volcanic and marine roots in Southern Italy, her practice unfolds as an interdisciplinary investigation into hydrofeminism, mythological acoustics, and landscape choreology. Her acclaimed albums Eurybia and Sphinx Nouvelle, released on the US label Leaving Records, have received international recognition from platforms such as Pitchfork, Vogue Italia, and Bandcamp Daily for their Elysian sensibility and imaginative fusion of electronic, ceremonial, and classical synthesizer forms.
Her research explores how bodies — human, more-than-human, and geological — carry memory, myth, and processes of transformation. Listening is central to her practice and understood as a radical tool for reconfiguring relationships between the body, the landscape, and the cosmos. Through sound compositions, choreographic scores, and educational formats, she often engages with the Mediterranean as a resonant body: a space of stratified histories, mythological echoes, and post-human imaginaries.
Francesca Heart has collaborated with artists including Kamasi Washington, Carlos Niño, Saul Williams, Eric Christison, and Vica Pacheco. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals such as The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Museo MADRE, MAO Torino, CTM Festival, Rewire Festival, Nextones, Club to Club, and Videocittà, and she has developed projects in collaboration with fashion houses including Balenciaga, Maison Margiela, and Dolce & Gabbana.
Her latest album Sphinx Nouvelle expands her sonic universe through mythological imagery and imagined architectures, unfolding as a form of “cinema for the ear” where immersive soundscapes, organic timbres, and rhythmic intensities coexist. Francesca Heart’s live performances are conceived as tailored formats, adapted to each specific context and space, and may include choreographic elements or audiovisual configurations. The audiovisual version of Sphinx Nouvelle, developed in collaboration with visual artist Cielo Futuro, premiered at Videocittà (Rome) in summer 2025.