About
Marnes is the name that my closest friend made up when I first started creating my artworks.
My name is Margherita Baggi and I come from Monfalcone, a town in Friuli - Venezia Giulia,
the Northern-east region of Italy, on the border with Slovenia.
The multiculturalism of my birthplace is one of the things that I am most proud of.
Origins, ancestors, lineages, roots, migrations and cultural identities are topics that constantly influence my work and attitude towards it.
If I hadn't chosen to study Music, Theater and Performance, I would have loved to became a historian and anthropologist.
However, I believe that art can be just another way to approach these subjects.
I studied jazz vocals and compositon between Trieste and Gothenburg.
I look at those years as, at times, confusing and difficult for my identity.
But as time passes, I grow feeling lucky and grateful to have met professors and students with such different takes on music and music backgrounds.
I recognise that they have exposed me to a range of sounds, colours and approaches that have enriched my artistic vocabulary and pushed me to grow as a person.
After my graduation from the Conservatory, I decided to follow an idea I had had since I was a little girl : to study acting, both theatrical and cinematographic.
By the end of the first year of Drama School, my current agent saw me in a play and invited me to be part of her Actors agency which made my feel like moving to Rome had been the right choice and that following the instinct of the little Margherita hadn't been such a wrong move.
The years in Rome taught me that I can always push a my limits further, that I can work harder than I thought and endure more than I knew.
Most importantly, I learned of how much respect and love I have for
the work and its process and that I am no longer afraid of it.
"Take responsibility for your own dreams ."
That's been the hardest but magistral lesson of these past years.
While studying art I learned discipline, an essential part of each creative process and a useful skill in personal matters.
I believe that art and creativity are my tools to read the world and better myself.
When I lose touch with them, I lose touch my right mind.
