Lara Ilaria Braconi

My practice explores painting as a site of transformation, where memory, materiality and absence continuously negotiate their presence. Working through layering, erasure, cuts, shaped supports and spatial installations, I investigate the threshold between image and disappearance.

Recent work focuses on painting as a living body — a permeable surface capable of recording traces of time, movement and experience. Through processes of accumulation and subtraction, works develop as fragments of larger environments, oscillating between painting, object and space.

Corpo Mondo

Corpo Mondo is the name that encapsulates and guides my artistic practice.

Through painting, I investigate the relationship between the body and the world, exploring the way in which we inhabit existence: a fragile, precarious and ever-changing condition.

My practice begins with the observation of the body as the primary locus of experience and knowledge. Over time, it has gradually opened up to the landscape, the living world and the possibilities offered by the medium of painting, giving rise to various series of works: Il Corpo Grido (2012–2015), Immersioni (2016–2018), Amore lento (2019–2021) and Spassi (2022–2024).

Whilst in the early stages the body, the landscape and the living constituted distinct fields of inquiry, today these trajectories tend to converge. Corpo Mondo arises precisely from this awareness: the body is not separate from the world it inhabits, but is a sensitive and mutable part of it.

Painting is the medium through which I explore this relationship. Through processes of layering, sedimentation, erasure, collage and recomposition, the images emerge as open forms, permeated by the possibility of transformation.

How can we live in the world without becoming detached from it?

My sense of wonder at the living world constantly fuels this quest. The sound of the wind, the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the water, the vastness of the mountains and the presence of life’s myriad forms are, for me, an inexhaustible source of wonder. It is in this experience of connection and belonging that I continue to find the reasons for my painting.