Date | 5-20 June | Sauna club inside the National Café-Resto-Bar |
Venue | Around the city - Exhibition Sobremesa |
Price | Free |
Untitled, 2022
Lisa Lurati (CH)
Lisa Lurati is an artist who uses photography as raw material in her work, exploring ancient techniques such as cyanotype, developed in the 19th century. This method uses iron salts sensitive to ultraviolet light, applied to paper or fabric. Inspired by the fascinating work of English botanist Anna Atkins, known for her “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions” published in 1843, Lisa Lurati uses cyanotype in a painterly approach to create large, mysterious canvases. She describes these works as an imaginary documentation of nature, combining existing elements with invented ones.
Lisa Lurati was born in Lugano in 1989. She first studied photography at the Centre d’enseignement professionnel (CEPV) in Vevey, then obtained a Master of Arts from the Institute Kunst Gender Nature (IAGN) in Basel. In 2019, she traveled for the first time to Tierra del Fuego in Chile—a journey that transformed her practice and led her to work on themes she continues to explore today. In 2018, she was a finalist for the VFG Young Talents for Photography award, then in 2020 for the Swiss Emerging Art Prize, and she undertook a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris. In 2022, she participated in a residency organized by Pro Helvetia in the Colombian Amazon. Her works are part of numerous collections and have been shown in many exhibitions across Switzerland: Photoforum Pasquart (Biel, 2018), La Filature (Mulhouse, 2019), Forma Gallery (Lausanne, 2020), Centre d’art contemporain (Yverdon-les-Bains, 2022), Gallery Ann Mazzotti (Basel, 2022), CAN (Neuchâtel, 2023), Editions VFO (Zurich, 2024). In Ticino, she has recently exhibited at the Bally Foundation at Villa Heleneum (Lugano, 2024), at Galerie Daniele Agostini (Lugano, 2023), at Casa Rusca (Locarno, 2023), and at Villa dei Cedri (Bellinzona, 2022). Since 2021, Lisa Lurati has been living and working in Lugano.
Photo credits: Andrea Rossetti