Born in Belluno

Esercizi di respirazione ventilata, dalla serie Caramelle

Lidia’s work revolves around commonplaces and stereotypes. Her projects are often multimedia and interactive, involving the public. Hermeans of expression are painting, collage, and installation; the materials used include layers of paper for painting, cardboard for collage, common objects, and words for installation. Circular shapes, discs, disks, rings, and holes, large and small, placed on a monochromatic red acrylic background, interconnected by thread-like lines. These are the connecting elements, the synapses of this bizarre ensemble. Bizarre because it's composed of multiple images taken from different contexts. The apples with the unusual serpent, which, having lost its negative connotation of evil, change character and become an ornament, are allusive and symbolic. Giant lilac shoots (syringa vulgaris), altered in size, color, and swollen appearance, become vegetal-organic and evoke the male genital apparatus. In contrast, the image of the uterus placed sideways refers to an alien spaceship, perhaps in search of new spaces and horizons, just as the small paper airplanes that fly freely here and there seems to be searching for new spaces. A round dance of mixed images, reality and fantasy, dreamlike metamorphoses that make up a single osmotic micro-universe. The osmotic micro-universe is also the absolute protagonist of this second painting. The depictions change, but the considerations made about the previous work still apply. In other words, images that, at first glance, seem to have nothing in common, placed in a new virtual space, take on new connotations and meanings. A giant alveolus becomes a flower, bellflowers evoke female genitalia, and a thicket of thorns turns into a dreamlike fantasy. Just as dreamlike are the giant candies immersed in bright spaces. Playful, on the other hand, are the billiard balls scattered here and there, including Pink Panther and Tex Willer. They are all dynamic elements of an aggregate that encompasses both humans, plants, and animals. The whole takes on meaning only when considered in its entirety; the giant thumb, however, could become a threat as it is capable of breaking the delicate balance with a simple gesture.