Lucrezia Bracci

Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal

Artist statement

Lucrezia is an Italian sculptor based in Lisbon. The interest in the human figure has persistently been part of the work, serving as a tool to transform existential thoughts into material form, for the purpose of creating a metaphysical place of experience. The body is the self, and it perceives the world through the senses, which affects the way an individual relates to the external world. What we experience is dictated by the way our body responds to the information received from the senses.It is through the self that the phenomenology of art is able to evaluate the realms of the physical and the conceptual. The word phenomenon can be defined as an object known through the senses, rather than by thought or intuition. The strive to create metaphysical places of experience, is fulfilled by the playful use of scale, the autonomy of the object and the optical quality of the form itself . These enhance the abstract quality and visual perception of the object. Sculpture itself has an almost human presence in the space it lives within. This is further enhanced when the scale of the object becomes significant or bigger compared to the viewer. Consequently, through the use of scale, the multidimensional qualities of the form, as well as the autonomy of the sculptures, forces the viewer to circumnavigate the object; both physically and mentally, in order to perceive and make sense of the three dimensional form it is exposed to. The experience created by an object within the...

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