Lucrezia de Fazio
Don’t Believe in Modern Love
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Lucrezia’s work is about encounters with herself: with her own body, with its texture, with its shape; or with another person, by remembering the moment in which this encounter happened and revealing it. It is about intimacy and shared intimacy. It is about love. A love story. Where encounter, sex, obsession, abandonment, pain a pleasure are its main elements.
As the title suggests, this exhibition is a reflection on relationships in our contemporary Western society. At the beginning of the new millennium, Polish philosopher and sociologist Z. Bauman coined the metaphor ofliquidity and solidity to characterise what it means to be modern in our present condition. According to Bauman, we live in a time of interregnum, in which the old certainties such as employment, marriage, religion, family are being vehemently called into question. In a present characterised by constant change, they appear to be inappropriate and castrating; while the new ways of dealing with the challenges of modern life appear to be too ephemeral, trembling hopes we can not count on.
The idea of the exhibition and its works revolve around the attempt to mediate the possibility of finding a balance between our desires for freedom and stability, liquidity and solidity, in relation to a significant Other.
curated by Mattia Tosti
Lucrezia’s artistic practice is developed through drawing, video installation and photography, in a research around the spheres of intimacy, sexuality and discourse with the other – the subconscious. Her work has roots in sculpture, with respect to the transformation of matter and the relationship between organic and inorganic. Drawing is the basis of her artistic practice; not only in its more traditional ink-on-paper configuration, but also as a support frame for its video installations, sculptures and performances. The key element in Lucrezia’s practice is the process; the artist is interested in the study and the investigation of the experience, the impact with the work, from the beginning of its creation to the impression caused by it in the public. Lucrezia graduated in Sculpture at Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and completed a Masters of Photography and Contemporary Practices at Central Saint Martins in London (2015-2017). During the MSc in London he won a scholarship to attend the Stokkøya Collaborative Residency in Norway (2017), where she worked on a Land Art project. In 2018 she participated in the Casa Lu residence in Mexico City and the first edition of the ASTRA residence in Spoleto, of which she is co-founder. Lucrezia also participated in the seventh edition of the Salon Acme Fair (February 2019) and she’s a finalist of the Art Laguna Prize (March 2019, Venice). Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Poland and Norway. At the moment she lives and works in Barcelona, where she is developing an artist jewelery project.
Mattia Tosti is an independent curator and researcher. Graduated in Politics, Philosophy and Economy at LUISS Guido Carli, Rome (2012-2016). Currently attending the last year of the Master of Cultural Studies, with specialization in Arts Management at UCP, in Lisbon.