N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present Madres, Monstuos y Máquinas - Acto II: Nudos by italian artist Lucrezia de Fazio (Rome, 1993), curated by Matteo Binci.
Visual artist working across drawing, video installation and photography researching on the sphere of motherhood, intimacy, and desire. Her work has its roots in sculpture, in the transformation of the matter and the relation between the organic and the inorganic.
Drawing is the ground of her artistic research; not only in the more traditional way of ink on paper, but is the supporting frame of video installations, sculptures and performances. Process is key in Lucrezia’s practice; she’s interested on the research of the experience, the impact with the work, from the time of the creation of the work itself, to the effect on the audience. Lucrezia works on encounters, with herself, her own body, its texture, it’s shape, or with someone else, remembering the moment the encounter happened and revealing it. It is about intimacy and shared intimacy.
" It is not given to us once and for all, the body is a writing that acts. Lucrezia, Mauricio and I were writing to each other at a distance of 10,234 km and seven hours of time difference. Lucrezia decided to inaugurate the exhibition two weeks before her own delivery, the birth of her first daughter. We are working on this exhibition as if we had needle and thread in our hands to ceaselessly sew together a dismembered body that can no longer be itself. Disassembled, impossible to recompose, disappeared and superabundant at the same time, composed of units in excessive number: nipples, braids, placentas, veins, amniotic fluids, hair and thorns suggest a body in becoming, a performable body, an infinite process of possible incarnations -multiple and simultaneous. Euphoric body in its multiplicities and multiplications. Body denaturalized through the concept of monster, monstrous body to define the difference and therefore, the limits of normality. The starting point is the centrality of the body in the perspective of supotentiation and not its overcoming in a cybernetic and disembodied key. We generate a thought of the body, of movement, of space and of composition. Not a representation of the thought of the body, but an incarnation of it in action. We open a space of thought to practice and inhabit it. The body becomes a space of political imagination, aware that each modification of the body modifies thought. We experience emotions as alterations of our body, deviations from the rational norm, far from being psychological states, they are presented as cultural practices. Our affections become imprints that our bodies leave on others, we understand that affection is a way of thinking, the way that allows us to be in the world, rethinking ourselves."
Exhibition text by Matteo Binci