orbite sacre corpi celesti
Laura Santamaria
26.04.24 - 26.05.24
sacred orbits celestial bodies is a solo exhibition by Laura Santamaria curated by Lorenzo Rubini and set up on the occasion of the reopening to the public of the church of ASP Beata Lucia in Narni, Umbria, Italy. The site-specific layout of the exhibition starts ideally from a research inaugurated by the artist ten years ago and linked to an investigation that drew personal inspiration from archaeological finds discovered in Iraq around the ancient Mesopotamian city-state of Ur; the central focus of the research had become the funeral kit and the characteristic diadem of the ancient Mesopotamian queen Puabi, figure still hidden by an intricate halo of mystery, beliefs, legends, science is mixed with the fantasy-science offering almost opposite views. This figure becomes the fulcrum at the crossroads of mystical experiences related to deities, planetary cycles and extra-terrestrial entities.
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Photo credit Lorenzo Raffanelli
Artist
(b. 1976, Monza - Italy)
She lives and works between Como and Milan; graduated from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and later specialized from the Loughborough University School of Art and Design. Her artistic research is focused on the use of pure matter, fire, pigments or crystals, to which she approaches with method, starting from a thorough study at a cognitive level and further following an individual artistic process, always highly experimental.
Her site-specific projects and sculptures often present the viewer a parallelism between the micro and macro cosmos, thus reflecting on systems and processes of interconnectivity.
