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Giulia Andreani – Momie de Palerme XX (La princesse), 2013
2024
Watercolor on paper
Venue
Born 1985 in Venice, Italy.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Painting with watercolour and acrylic, and in Payne’s grey only, Giulia Andreani conjures forgotten histories, buried narratives and invisibilised people. As a “memory worker”, she composes her pictures from various sources – archival documents, vintage photographs and screen grabs of auteur films – to craft possible new ways of reading history. At Lugdunum, she exhibits a series of paintings that recall symbols traditionally associated with fragility, but which nevertheless reveal multiple promises of resistance and strength. Presented in the room dedicated to the cult of the dead, Momie de Palerme XX (La princesse) echoes the Funerary Mask of Claudia Victoria, which preserves the memory of the deceased, a ten-year-old girl.
Also on view at the Fagor factories and in The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet at the macLYON.
Private collection
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London
With the support of the Cultural Italian Institute in Lyon
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