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Artistic approach

My work questions the history of extractivism in Latin America from a city that was once the epicenter of the capitalist world and is now forgotten: Potosí. I question the different historical narratives that exist about colonization and how it continues to inhabit our bodies and territories. In my work I also draw on other historical events that date from the same period as colonization in the Americas, such as the witch hunt or the Renaissance. This work of memory is mixed in my practice with contemporary collective and intimate stories that I collect in Bolivia and from my personal experience.
I write stories with sculptures: bastard stories, unofficial, unaccepted, that question our heritage, shake up our convictions and invite us to reflect on the need to build new philosophical structures for our current world.
Intuitive and uninhibited experimentation is at the heart of my practice: like a thought in motion that seeks possible utopias to thwart the destruction of the planet, it does not aim for fixed perfection (and therefore control) but rather the fluidity of multiple metamorphoses, constantly enriched by collective debate. I am also interested in the different struggle movements that today oppose the colonial legacy of the deep domestication of nature. As part of a committed association myself, I reflect on how the collective is created and organized, on the tensions that this implies in moving forward together, on the means of expressing oneself and existing.

© Lucia Neri

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