My research focuses on creating disorienting and luring traps to investigate how mechanisms of attraction operate, through spatial painting installations layered within a phantasmagorical space inhabited by enigmatic objects. I often find myself captivated by these dynamics through the eyes of the prey, occupying a vulnerable position, while simultaneously sensing myself as predator and bait. These “traps” emerge from an almost obsessive observation, drawing inspiration from everyday screens and lenses, childhood memories, and the traces left on surfaces and their ongoing metamorphoses.
The fragments that surface act as bridges between the concreteness of reality and a fantastical dimension. The archive—composed of characters extrapolated from the archetypal alphabet of the trickster found in multiple mythologies—captures the tension between human experience and the dangerously seductive nature of materials.
Daydreaming,
Daydreaming
Under too soft crystal
Sotto cristalli troppo morbidi is the result of the individual and collaborative creative processes of Luisa Badino and Giulia M. Belli.
The artists’ visual production is nourished by stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends, where both reading and writing serve as both the starting and ending points for their exploration. Words and images mutually feed and enrich the correspondence that the artists have woven for months: annotated phrases become potential forms, impressions...