PROJECT ROOM #12 – Lucia Leuci

Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck opens PROJECT ROOM #12 to the public with Lucia Leuci. The artist presents the results of her research on the archive and life of Pharaildis Van den Broeck, starting from the idea of vernacular: something that’s becoming less common these days, but still alive, fluid, and able to change and create new meanings.

The project begins with the creation of a puppet sculpture, created by Lucia Leuci in collaboration with the Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli. This figure is not only an element of the exhibition, but comes to life in the space of the Atelier Archive, inspired by an unpublished text written specifically for the occasion by author Antonio Moresco.

Alongside this new production, there are emblematic artworks from the artist’s research and a selection of Pharaildis Van den Broeck artworks, specially chosen to enrich the exhibition.

The comparison between the two artists reveals a profound harmony in their freedom of expression. Through Pharaildis’s artworks, Lucia Leuci explores new horizons, deepening themes that have long been central to her artistic research: the female body and the way it is dressed, decorated, fed, exposed, and appropriated. Her artworks take the form of spaces in which the collective and the private, reality and fiction, precious and discarded materials overlap and contaminate each other. In this web of layers, the artist melts the usual boundaries between what is considered appropriate, beautiful, and conforming, to embrace those aspects of inner and outer reality that most attract and at the same time repel our gaze.

Project Room #12 is accompanied by the publication of a limited-edition booklet of 250 copies, designed by Emiliano Biondelli.