About
Vanessa Lodigiani is a painter and performance artist. With interests in philosophy and a past in psychoanalysis, her work fundamentally circles around human existence, using gender, historical and cultural elements as points of reference for the development of her work. Lodigiani has commented that she “uses the human body as a vessel as well as the interpretation and use of signs and symbols in contemporary popular culture.” Drawn by the mystery of the duality inherent in all things, her practice focuses on that force which is both movement and unity, a tension between opposing forces, the motor that is the energy of life itself, its fleeting balance, and the transcendence and presence of matter.
Born in Mexico City. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at La Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Painting and engraving. Artistic residencies: Galeria Arbaca, Resident Artist, Paris, France, received the LIA Leipzig International Art Program residence in Germany. She worked and assisted the renown master engraver Giorgio Upliglio in Grafica Uno in Milan, Italy. In 1998 she did her first performance in Paris, where she understood that her strongest medium was herself. She has exhibited her work and performances in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Leipzig, Mexico City, Naples, New York, and Rome. She has participated in multiple individual and collective exhibitions. After almost two decades away from her birth land, having lived in seven countries and eleven different cities; the last studio being at the Fahbereitschaft Haubrok in Berlin. Now she is based in Mexico City where she is currently working on larger scale paintings and performance.
"There is always a symbolic charge in the images that I choose, which serve as metaphors for my visual language, I seek to create my own order of things, an isolated system within the Grand Order of the all"
Vanessa Lodigiani