Lucrezia Testa Iannilli
Italy | B. 1977
Photographer and performer who employs interdisciplinary tools of investigation. Distinctive features of her artistic practice are the open-air, almost exclusively site-specific photographic macro-installations, as well as performance cycles in decontextualised spaces in which the human and animal bodies are employed.
CREDENCIAIS
2019
Adrenalina Art Project – exhibited award-winning work, Biennale Prize – Rome
2017
The Salt of the Earth – exhibition and prize, ETuscia Movie Festival, Tuscania
2024
Unearth, New Gods Era - installation, Rome Art Week, Rome
New Humans, New Gods - installation, Bolzano Art Week, Bolzano
2023
Festival Uncentered Paradigma, video installation - Ex Mattatoio, Rome
Permanent installation, Parco del Lamone, Farnese, Sponsored by Parchi Lazio
2022
Una Pura Formalità - Installation, Traffic Police Headquarters, Rome
Non Credete al Cavallo – Performative installation, Piano Zero, Rome
2021
Animalia | Room to Bloom, installation + talk - Fondazione Studio Rizoma, Palermo
New Gods – Open Studio, Diorama Gallery, Rome
Gates - Inst/manifesto, Flashback Opera Viva project, Piazza Bottesini, Turin
2020
Do Humans Dream of Electric Sheep? | Drink Kong – Open Studio, Rome
Non c’è bisogno finché c'è bisogno – Exhibition of the winning work, Triangolo Gallery, Cremona
2019
Move The Wall – Open Studio, Studio Ascenzi, Viterbo
MACRO ASILO #selfportrait, talk + installation - Macro Museum | Rome
Dance Like There’s Nobody W| Performance, Open House project - Bagnaia
2018
Game of Vanth | Open Studio - performative installation, LUISS - Villa Blanc, Rome
Epona | Amelia Irish Week, works on display - Amelia
2017
Personne et Moi – Performative installation, Gallerie Jeudi Soir, Paris
Il Sale della Terra - exhibition, ETuscia Movie Festival, Tuscania
2016
Game of Vanth - Performance, Archaeological Park of Vulci
2015
Elevator - intervention at Pastificio Cerere, Rome
Centaurs - open shooting Archaeological Park of Selinunte
PHOTOVOGUE Festival, exhibition + talk | Milan
2024
GUERRILLA GIG, performance, Mare Culturale Urbano, Milan
New Humans, New Gods - land art installation, Parco del Gran Caro, Bolsena
PERFORMA - live installation, Roma Tre University
Roma Fotogra a, exhibition | NATIONAL ROMAN MUSEUM P. Massimo
2023
Mito-Morphosis - Site-specific installation, curated by M. Weese, (Aventino) Rome
PHEST Festival - Site-specific installation in urban space, Monopoli
Liquida Grant Group Show, work on display - Cavallerizza, Turin
2022
PHOTO VOGUE FESTIVAL - talk + exhibition, Milan
Lorem Ipsum collective installation, Spazio In Situ, Rome
Animalia - Expo-Talk | ID-EXE by RedBull, Milan
2021
Italians Festival – publication and exhibition - PERIMETRO agency, Milan
Animalia – Urban installation, Futuro Arcaico Festival, Bari
2020
Starway from Heaven – manifesto work for Faenza Art District, Faenza
Romarama Festival/Rome Capital – works on display, Port of Rome, Ostia
The End of the World | work exhibition - Oelle Foundation, Palazzo delle Arti, Catania
2019
Gates II | TolfArte – works on display, Palazzo Buttaoni, Tolfa
2018
A Year 30 Artists – group exhibition, curated by Juanni Wang - Rome
2017
Il Sale della Terra - exhibition, ETuscia Movie Festival, Tuscania
Open Landscapes – exhibition, Castello Baglioni Festival, Graffignano
Gates | In Connection Art Gallery, work on display - Arte Fiera Bologna
2016
Animalia | MIART Fair, FPAC - works on display – Milan
2014
Boudoir Manouche | Villa Brucsj, Manifesto of the Clandestine Artists - Palermo/Toulouse
Permanent installation, Parco del Lamone, Farnese, Sponsored by Parchi Lazio
2019
S-comfort Zone | residency + performance, Paradiso P Living, Alpe Siusi, Bolzano
FRANCESCO SACCO - album cover 2022-24
2024
HYPERSENSIUM Magazine – interview
2023
ARTPIL – publication
CREBS – publication
ROLLING STONE Magazine – publication
Eye Mama Book – a selected work
Il Fotografo - publication
2022
THE GUARDIAN - publication
ISIT online publication
XXX - DESCARDED Magazine publication
2021
PERIMETRO online publication
2020
Gianni Asdrubali catalog publication
2019
Tommaso Cascella catalog cover
2018
Gianni Asdrubali catalog publication
2016-17
MIA-LEJOURNAL Issue IV-V reportage publication
New Humans, New Gods - installation, Bolzano Art Week, Bolzano
2022
VU - Episode _2+3, performative installation - Vetrina Alibrandi, Viterbo
2020
VU - Presa di DI-STANZA | episode _1, Viterbo
VU - Residency | episode _0 - Vetrina Alibrandi, Viterbo
2019
S-comfort Zone | residency + performance, Paradiso P Living, Alpe Siusi, Bolzano
Exposições Lumicroma
IN COLORS PROJECT | REACT!
The broadness ... Ler Mais
The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph.
In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death.
There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered. Ler Menos
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IN COLORS PROJECT | HOME
In 74 photographs, 32 authors from 14 nationalities give us the most poignant portrait of what we are, what we do and what we are failing at. Because HOME has smiles and exposed wounds. It shows a sense of belonging and an absurd lack of ground. It is the human cloak of a thousand patches to which we all belong.
This is our Home. And we can't close our eyes.
IN COLORS PROJECT - an initiative without borders by Lumicroma - reclaims the relevance of photography as a socio-cultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences, aesthetics and visions, it aims to trace, every year, the big picture of the times in which we live. Ler Menos
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AUSCHWITZ: TRACE(S) OF A LEGACY
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilanc ... Ler Mais
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilance and encourages the commitment of future generations, so that, through these, the voices of the survivors, which will soon no longer be heard, can echoe.
We know the history, we have seen the films and we have read the books. We have always been told that Auschwitz is the true symbol of Holocaust, since more than one million jews were murdered there. A factory of killing people! Gypsies, ho-mossexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political dissidents also suffered in this dark place.
We have read about the hideous experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz. We have seen photographies of the survivors, of the corpses, of the crematoriums, of the abandoned personal belongings. We started our journey to Poland with the thought that we would be prepared to face the interpretative centre of the Holocaust and, through it, find the answer to our restlessness: how could this have been humanly possible?
During the journey, we revisited those with whom we had previously shared the feeling of the concentration camp. All the pages, testimonies and faces remained well alive in our memories.
We have arrived, the presence in Auschwitz overwhelms us!
No memory, read, studied, seen or heard can be compared to standing right there. In the deafening silence of that place, which carries within itself the imense loss of human sense, the question of Theodor Adorno gains strenght: How can poetry be possible after Auschwitz Ler Menos
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COURA'S PARADISE
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget th ... Ler Mais
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget that breathtaking human wall and the generous way they are received. It captures the sweetness, the serenity, the deepest peace, the shared love, the respect, the amazement, the unique energy of the Taboão river, contrasted with the exaltation, the apotheosis, the celebration and the joy, that sacred emotion that Almada Negreiros once said was "the most serious thing in life".
Year after year, we need the Paredes de Coura Festival to recharge the batteries of passion, to dispel the mediocrity of the grayest days, to cure the diseases of the sadness that makes us pale and to chase away the city carrion that burrows into our bones. To fill ourselves with beauty, euphoria and the deepest peace, in divine communion with nature. On pilgrimage, in a perpetual return to magic.
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IN COLORS PROJECT | JOY
Photography, as a device for representation and mediation, emerges as a territory for ideological, aesthetic, and poetic experimentation. The selected images map out visual strate- gies through which different cultures are encoded, ritualized, and transmitted. Encompassing a range of representational expressions – from collective celebration to intimate contemplation – each author presents a singular visual lexicon, revealing joy as a socio-anthropological and aesthetic praxis, while envisioning the creation of possible futures.
The curatorial approach is structured around the hypothesis that the photographic image constitutes a device for reconfiguring sensibility, for analyzing and interpreting reality, transfigured and appropriated into autonomous and individual realities, prompting us to question the conditions of possibility for pleasure, encounter, and transformation in contemporary societies.
Curated by Aníbal Lemos and Sandra Maria Teixeira
IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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