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Biography

LORENZA LUCCHI BASILI

Pescara, 1964. She lives and works in Padua.
Lorenza Lucchi Basili chooses architectures that are strongly representative for the communities that have built them in order to make their hidden symbolic values emerge. The “here and now” of the moment of the shutter release counts a lot: the point of view, the weather conditions, the sounds of the urban context. By drawing several images close together, another level of complexity borne of the observer’s instinctive need to look for possible connections, reciprocal prolongations of the surfaces and reflections is generated. By observing these pictures with intensity and attention, one goes into a light trance fostered by the impression – which is false – of looking at a manipulation, or even a digital painting. Instead, they are strictly analogue snapshots. One of the major goals of Lorenza Lucchi Basili’s work is to analyse how our perception of what is real is constructed through cognitive prejudices that immediately lead us to classify everything that does not fall within the usual categories as being unreal. She has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna; Noass, Riga; Meno Parkas, Kaunas; Raid Projects, Los Angeles; Fuori Uso, Pescara; New Media Scotland, Edinburgh; and in two projects organised by Zerynthia as part of the Biennale of Venice and the II Biennale of Valencia.