Luisa Rabbia

Luisa is an Italian artist, interested in the body and drawing.

In her art, Luisa Rabbia explores the perception of the body as border between the outside and the inside world of an individual: the relationship between a human and his environment, including his spiritual journey, his thoughts, memory and the passing of time. Anywhere out of the world narrates states of precariousness and fragility. The artist works with various materials, though she prefers those that best narrate the passage of time, the crumbling of things
and their disintegration. "I like to consider time itself a material," Luisa Rabbia says, "the main material that everything else may relate to." A face with closed eyes might suggest to us that the individual is resting, but who knows what is going on inside? What determines being
present? What happens in an abandoned body next to us? "I am attracted to the fine line between logic and madness, to how personal obsessions can construct a situation that is only real in our
thoughts", says Luisa Rabbia. "The drawing gives life to the thought, expressed in the dialogue between formal construction of the work and
the spark of creativity." To the artist, it is important to leave the mystery of the mind intact, to leave that hidden universe alive. This mystery upsets certainty and
the possibility of judging. Outside, there is a confusing world of patterns. But also the silence inside makes a lot of noise.
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Old Man, 2007
Pencil on mixed material, 28 x 28 x 30 inches, LR-1047