Lucia Leuci

Lives and works in Milan, Italy

Artist statement

In her observation of everyday life, Lucia Leuci essentially explores two pivotal themes: the existential, intended by the artist as capturing individual existences that can be found in the real world (i.e. observing unsymbolic, commonplace subjects, such as workers, families, mothers and children, creating new forms of so-called ‘ordinary people’), and the urban, where the city is viewed metaphorically as a place that influences the existence of each individual. Both tensions express a sociological lexicon of everyday life, filtered through an act of synthesis and of a non-analytical eye, which manifests in an indistinct use of multiple media. Lucia Leuci’s practice constantly sweeps from immaterial, emotional and metaphorical content to the tactile substance of sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. This passage from corporeal to immaterial could seen as a translation process that transforms and contaminates what it deciphers; an exploration of the meditative state acquired by this evolution and the relation it has with the meaning of presence and time, as well as the relationships between structure, space and viewer. However, this process is not a mere reproposal or reconfiguration of the materials but an exploration of the material itself: its entropic appearance, temporality and ephemeral nature. The artist experiments with the materials in an intuitive and empathetic manner, often delving into their least conventional properties, inviting us to understand and...

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