For the first time in Italy, and after the recent debut in New York, German photographer Barbara Luisi presents at Palazzo Vernazza in Lecce several series of photographs including Vita Aeterna, which was conceived in Apulia – from Brindisi to Fasano – in 2015. The series is her ode to olive trees as protagonists of a thousand-year old history and incommensurable human heritage, which is too often threatened by human kind. The work in Vita Aeterna is closely linked to her previous series, Nude Nature (2007), Dreamland (2014) and a selection from Fragility (2013-2015), is presented together with a preview of the new photographs AKT – Ageless Beauty (2017), which focuses on the mature human body. The epidermis, nodosity and the apparent fragility of bodies of all ages and races that the photographer invites to sit for her, find a parallel full of references with animals and plants, the living beings of the natural world. Like trees, individuals also pose in groups of two, three and four. “Trees need a social life,” said Barbara Luisi, “the young ones are planted next to the older ones, to share vitality through their roots.” Two sound installations, produced for the exhibition, accompany the black and white photographs.
Barbara Luisi, AKT. Photographs
June 4 – 29, 2017
Palazzo Vernazza
Vico Vernazza
73100 Lecce
Italy
