Claudia Losi

How do I imagine being there?

What language should be used to describe a place? This is the core question of Claudia Losi’s project.

The way we perceive places also shows how we develop our thinking: the pondering hinted at and evoked by the works on exhibit springs from individual and collective imagination; we feel, we store experiences and later we “bring them back into the world” in different and subjective constellations.

Losi’s is a peculiar travel chronicle turning into consciousness of the journey itself. It springs out of a real “crossing” of St. Kilda islands in 2012 to later shift into the realm of the mind, to move onto the construction of new maps.

Experiences of physically relating with a territory, of emotions, and feelings, become mnemonic traces generating new visions, artefacts that the artist creates after a period of sedimentation.
A project dedicated to memory, its functioning mechanisms transforming a real experience where the journey and the landscape are capable of triggering pathways at time leading to unforeseeable and unexpected destination even for the artist. At the same time, however, the project focusses on a future, on the idea of moving beyond towards new destinations which from being real places turn into places of the mind.
The exhibition – an itinerary which photographs, sculptures, objects, drawings and textiles lead us inside an “archipelago of thoughts”– is organically connected to a book with the same title that brings together contributions from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology.

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Claudia Losi (Piacenza, 1971)

After her diploma at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna and the university degree in Languages at Bologna University, Claudia Losi participated in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among her recent solo shows:MAGASIN, Grenoble e Royal Academy, London 2010; MAXXI, Roma (2012); Via Farini-DOCVA, Milano (2011),La Maréchalerie_énsa V Versailles, Studio Orta Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel (2013); MAMbo, Bologna 2013; Livorno in Contemporanea e Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno-Lucca 2015.

After spending a few years abroad (France and Scotland) she was invited as resident artist by Studio Orta Les Moulins (Paris), to JCVA in Israel and Art Omi International in Ghent (NY).

Since 1998 has taken part in many projects based on participation and relationship. Nature and science are her source of inspiration together with historical and anthropological aspects of the environment. In view of her many interests in several disciplines (natural sciences, ethnology, geology, cartography, poetry and literature), her artistic research has focussed on the relationship between the human and nature, travel and exploration as knowledge-based experiences.

Losi works with a variety of media, from site- specific installations to sculpture, videos, works on fabric and paper.