Laura Federici

Laura Federici's body of work debates the reality of urban lives and the relations which connect us to the environment showing how space affects our memories.
'My work is a work on the time. A work about the repetition of the moment, about the creation of a new history. It is not a picture that I paint, it is a frame, a lightning of time.' – Laura Federici
Federici bliss canvases draw the viewer whether they depict the elevated highway running through Rome or the courtyards of the mosques in Damascus, affectively gripping our minds. Objects shown in detail or close-ups become anchors to hold on to, lest we get caught in contemporary 'mobility' and fall ill with disorientation. They are rafts to get on to, when the fluidity of things make us all strangers, with no space to occupy." – (from the article by art critic Arianna di Genova). Suddenly we are transformed and immersed in sunny seaside's, the eternal beauty of Rome or exotic landscapes.

Laura Federici was born in Rieti, Rome in 1964. She lives and works in Rome. She has exhibited widely internationally, furthermore recently to the Macro Museum of Rome and, with her new project Mekong's Diary, in Vietnam.