Ludovica Carbotta

Description

Born in Turin in 1982, Ludovica Carbotta lives and works in Barcelona. After graduating in painting from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Art in Turin in 2005, she obtained her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in London in 2015, having studied at Central Saint Martins London between 2011 and 2012 thanks to a scholarship from the Ariane de Rothschild Prize. In 2008 she was one of the participants of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts by Yona Friedman at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como. In her early years of research, Carbotta explored the ways that individuals make connections with the environment in which they live, through the physical exploration of urban space. In 2011 she had her first solo exhibition in an institutional space as part of the Greater Torino programme, sponsored by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. The use of translation and, in particular, of ekphrasis, the art of evoking an absent artwork with words, has led the artist to explore the role of imagination and narration. Since 2014, her work has evolved in a delicate balance between reality and fiction, combining installations, texts and performances that address notions of place, identity and participation. In the same years, she first experimented with what she calls fictional site-specificity, a form of site-specific practice that generates imaginary territories or materializes real places through fictional scenarios, as exemplified by The Original Is Unfaithful to the Translation, 2015, and subsequent works.