The opportunity to present her solo exhibition ‘Fuori Formato’ (FPAC Gallery Project Wall) – a working pro collection of 22 photographs taken on set while working with Italian actress Sabina Guzzanti for a year – brought her back to Palermo in January 2016. In April 2015 and 2016, together with Francesco Pantaleone Art Gallery, she participated in the international contemporary art fair MIART in Milan, presenting ‘Animalia’ a diptych from her portfolio and the series/ reportage Wild Horses. Between 2017 and 2022 she works with installations and performances on large-scale projects. In Paris in 2017 she collaborates with Laurent Derobert for the annual project “Chambre D’embarquement,” installing a horse by stuntman Mario Luraschi in one of the experimental spaces of Galerie Hus, called “Jeudi Soir” in Mont Martre. In Bolzano she became resident artist for the permanent project Pure Art Circle while in Rome she collaborated with the Rome Art Week Festival, the MACRO Museum and the LUISS Business School University. In 2021 she won two national calls that led her to exhibit in Turin for the Flashback Opera Viva project and fair and in Bari for the Futuro Arcaico Festival, while the renowned Milan-based contemporary photography agency PERIMETRO recently published two of her photo reportages, winning the selection for the 2021 edition of the Italians Festival in Milan. Journalist and photo editor Irene Alison recently published a text/interview about her work with new humans and meta-mythology and the long-term project ‘Animalia.’
Again with the Animalia series and the Ritratti Surreali, she is part of the international collective of the STUDIO RIZOMA Foundation (Room To Bloom project) for artistic and political research based in Palermo, after which she prepares and sets up a living installation with horses in Rome in the spaces of the experimental Piano Zero Gallery in the historic Tor Pignattara district. Between 2021–22 she started work on the photographic project ‘New Gods,’ the subsequent photographic action of ‘metaphysical’ portraits that followed the New Humans series and began with an open studio in Giano Del Bufalo and Niccolo Mottinelli’s Diorama Gallery in Rome. Also in 2022 his works are selected as NFT for the Saatchi Gallery auction in London and for the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan.
Shortly afterwards she won the call of the independent Roman project space Spazio in Situ, which exhibited one of her manifestos during the group show Lorem Ipsum. The end of 2022 sees her taking part in the seventh edition of Rome Art Week, installing a unique work inside the minutes office of the Rome Police Department, the work will be called ‘Una Pura Formalità,’ giving rise to a new long-term project. In addition, some of shes works are being selected by the editors of the Lens Culture Photography Awards for 2023. In March 2023, she presented the open-air photographic installation “I leave the house at three o’clock in the morning because I want to cry and love” for the Selva del Lamone Regional Park and the municipality of Farnese.
From 2020 to the present day, she has brought the _VU project to life, turning the Viterbo location of the Égreen company into an artist-run space that is a reference point for the enjoyment of contemporary research and a space for artistic residencies. In addition to being a distributor of the self-produced photozine that deals with the issues of contemporary photography. Today it collaborates with institutions and organizations by realizing installations, talks, open studios, residencies, exhibitions, workshops and performances.
Lucrezia Testa Iannilli
Artist / Photographer
Photographer and performer works using interdisciplinary tools. She defines the processes of her research practices by intervening with installations and performance cycles in decontextualizing spaces, using the human and animal body to create cognitive dissonances. The series of works he investigates take as their starting point the reflection on ethical innovation, starting from the observation of the already bionic post-human, which leads the vision to boldly anticipate the times. She is currently pursuing the long-term work ‘A Pure Formality’, reiterating the concept of becoming a channel; a transversal investigation of weaknesses and criticalities in the art sector especially with regard to the relational sphere, the poetics of recommendation and the concept of meta-mythology associated with post-human bureaucracy.
Lucrezia began with language studies and then devoted herself to the equestrian world. She first moved to Switzerland and then to Canada in Montreal, attending the Mont Saint Hilaire Academy, graduating from the Quebec Equestrian Academy (FEQ) as a federal riding instructor. From 1995 to 2000, she worked in the eld as an assistant trainer, teacher and horse trainer. Shortly afterwards, she moved to Brazil, collaborating with a communication and equestrian show agency in Belo Horizonte and in 2006 – back in Italy – she launched and managed a cultural activity in Rome, approaching contemporary art, performance and photography for the first time. In 2008, she decided to broaden her knowledge and experience in the field by moving between London, Paris, Toulouse, Palermo, Favignana and Tuscania (where she currently resides), working as a free-lance art director and developing her own vision, thus beginning a process of artistic research that she pursues in the development of her entire production. She mainly uses the medium of photography, making use of performative actions and site-specific installations.
Lucrezia Testa Iannilli
Artist / Photographer
Photographer and performer works using interdisciplinary tools. She defines the processes of her research practices by intervening with installations and performance cycles in decontextualizing spaces, using the human and animal body to create cognitive dissonances. The series of works he investigates take as their starting point the reflection on ethical innovation, starting from the observation of the already bionic post-human, which leads the vision to boldly anticipate the times. She is currently pursuing the long-term work ‘A Pure Formality’, reiterating the concept of becoming a channel; a transversal investigation of weaknesses and criticalities in the art sector especially with regard to the relational sphere, the poetics of recommendation and the concept of meta-mythology associated with post-human bureaucracy.
Lucrezia began with language studies and then devoted herself to the equestrian world. She first moved to Switzerland and then to Canada in Montreal, attending the Mont Saint Hilaire Academy, graduating from the Quebec Equestrian Academy (FEQ) as a federal riding instructor. From 1995 to 2000, she worked in the eld as an assistant trainer, teacher and horse trainer. Shortly afterwards, she moved to Brazil, collaborating with a communication and equestrian show agency in Belo Horizonte and in 2006 – back in Italy – she launched and managed a cultural activity in Rome, approaching contemporary art, performance and photography for the first time. In 2008, she decided to broaden her knowledge and experience in the field by moving between London, Paris, Toulouse, Palermo, Favignana and Tuscania (where she currently resides), working as a free-lance art director and developing her own vision, thus beginning a process of artistic research that she pursues in the development of her entire production. She mainly uses the medium of photography, making use of performative actions and site-specific installations.
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The opportunity to present her solo exhibition ‘Fuori Formato’ (FPAC Gallery Project Wall) – a working pro collection of 22 photographs taken on set while working with Italian actress Sabina Guzzanti for a year – brought her back to Palermo in January 2016. In April 2015 and 2016, together with Francesco Pantaleone Art Gallery, she participated in the international contemporary art fair MIART in Milan, presenting ‘Animalia’ a diptych from her portfolio and the series/ reportage Wild Horses. Between 2017 and 2022 she works with installations and performances on large-scale projects. In Paris in 2017 she collaborates with Laurent Derobert for the annual project “Chambre D’embarquement,” installing a horse by stuntman Mario Luraschi in one of the experimental spaces of Galerie Hus, called “Jeudi Soir” in Mont Martre. In Bolzano she became resident artist for the permanent project Pure Art Circle while in Rome she collaborated with the Rome Art Week Festival, the MACRO Museum and the LUISS Business School University. In 2021 she won two national calls that led her to exhibit in Turin for the Flashback Opera Viva project and fair and in Bari for the Futuro Arcaico Festival, while the renowned Milan-based contemporary photography agency PERIMETRO recently published two of her photo reportages, winning the selection for the 2021 edition of the Italians Festival in Milan. Journalist and photo editor Irene Alison recently published a text/interview about her work with new humans and meta-mythology and the long-term project ‘Animalia.’
Again with the Animalia series and the Ritratti Surreali, she is part of the international collective of the STUDIO RIZOMA Foundation (Room To Bloom project) for artistic and political research based in Palermo, after which she prepares and sets up a living installation with horses in Rome in the spaces of the experimental Piano Zero Gallery in the historic Tor Pignattara district. Between 2021–22 she started work on the photographic project ‘New Gods,’ the subsequent photographic action of ‘metaphysical’ portraits that followed the New Humans series and began with an open studio in Giano Del Bufalo and Niccolo Mottinelli’s Diorama Gallery in Rome. Also in 2022 his works are selected as NFT for the Saatchi Gallery auction in London and for the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan.
Shortly afterwards she won the call of the independent Roman project space Spazio in Situ, which exhibited one of her manifestos during the group show Lorem Ipsum. The end of 2022 sees her taking part in the seventh edition of Rome Art Week, installing a unique work inside the minutes office of the Rome Police Department, the work will be called ‘Una Pura Formalità,’ giving rise to a new long-term project. In addition, some of shes works are being selected by the editors of the Lens Culture Photography Awards for 2023. In March 2023, she presented the open-air photographic installation “I leave the house at three o’clock in the morning because I want to cry and love” for the Selva del Lamone Regional Park and the municipality of Farnese.
From 2020 to the present day, she has brought the _VU project to life, turning the Viterbo location of the Égreen company into an artist-run space that is a reference point for the enjoyment of contemporary research and a space for artistic residencies. In addition to being a distributor of the self-produced photozine that deals with the issues of contemporary photography. Today it collaborates with institutions and organizations by realizing installations, talks, open studios, residencies, exhibitions, workshops and performances.
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Muriel Hasbun: Tracing TerruñoSep 29, 2023 – Jan 8, 2024Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño is the first survey in New York City of the career of multidisciplinary artist Muriel Hasbun. The photography exhibition celebrates Hasbun’s dedication to exploring identity and memory, using her personal story to examine collective histories through photography, video, and installation from the late 1980s to the present. (more…)
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Performance AutumnSep 30 – Nov 19, 2023This autumn, we are presenting a series of entirely new performances created by artists from the north of Sweden exclusively for Bildmuseet. You will meet expressions blurring the boundaries between art, music, sound, and dance, taking place in various spaces throughout the museum: exhibition halls and stairwells, open areas and enclosed rooms. (more…)
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Nan GoldinJul 8, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024The ballad of sexual dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen family – her ‘tribe’ – began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs, which has recently become part of the National Gallery’s collection. (more…)
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Boros Collection / Bunker Berlin #4OngoingWe have rarely been as aware of the vulnerability of our physical bodies as in recent years. As a society, we are constantly upgrading our bodies through artificial enhancements to immunize ourselves against infections and maximize our performance. (more…)
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As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of StoriesOct 21, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories is an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes – the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia – that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia. (more…)
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Interview with Saul LeiterBy David Gibson“History of art is a history of great things neglected and ignored and mediocre things being admired. At different times things are different. The history of photography is a history of changes.” –Saul Leiter (more…)
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Joel Sternfeld: American ProspectsSep 28, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024Joel Sternfeld numbers among the most important protagonists of the New Color Photography movement, which discovered color for art photography in the 1970s. Sternfeld has spent years traveling around the United States as a critical observer, documenting the country and its inhabitants in all their idiosyncrasies and contradictions. (more…)
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Nirmala Dutt: StatementsJul 18 – Dec 24, 2023“I am an artist first and foremost – not necessarily just a woman artist or feminist artist or political artist.” Nirmala Dutt (1941–2016) cuts a sharp and unusual figure in Malaysian art history. She was one of very few women artists in her generation to forge and sustain a practice and presence in the local art scene, and gain recognition beyond. (more…)
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Sacha TurchiArtistSacha Turchi currently lives and works in Italy and collaborates with various visual and sound artists. The interactions between individual and nature, body and psyche, constitutes the essential matrix of her research. (more…)
