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These works can be seen as an homage to Ferrari’s young self, embodying personal reflection by using the Pentimento painting method, through which she leaves remnants of previous marks on the canvas.
Lucia Ferrari’s body of work explores her sexuality and identity. These works can be seen as an homage to Ferrari’s young self, embodying personal reflection by using the Pentimento painting method, through which she leaves remnants of previous marks on the canvas. The paintings are created from memory, exploring the notion of recollection and how she remembers the past, along with jaded memory’s place in her consciousness today. This is the most honest body of work Ferrari has produced to date, which is demonstrated by the exhibition’s bold title (and its religious connotations): this body of work is unabashedly for her, while its themes remain thought-provoking to the general viewer. Amen
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ARTWORKS
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[Art] provided a lifeline and purpose at a moment when she had begun to neglect her education and act out, in part due to the frustration of hiding her queer sexual identity during her catholic upbringing.
Lucia Ferrari is an Italian artist raised in North London. While her working-class environment did not provide many opportunities to forge a path in art, she found a love for literature, history, and the arts in her school art classes; they provided a lifeline and purpose at a moment when she had begun to neglect her education and act out, in part due to the frustration of hiding her queer sexual identity during her catholic upbringing.
Now, having pursued her artistic practice, Ferrari recreates theatrical scenes from past memories, distorted through imagination and nostalgia. Her visual narratives continuously touch on her female queer identity and religious background, which can be found in the composition and subject matter within her works.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
QUEER, ME: THE CONFESSIONAL: A DEBUT SOLO SHOW BY LUCIA FERRARI | IT'S 2020 FOR F*CK SAKE – A THIRTEEN ARTIST, BACK-TO-BACK SOLO EXHIBITION MARATHON
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