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Lorenza Longhi
Born in 1991, Lecco, Italy
Lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland
Overview
In Lorenza Longhi’s practice, visual elements taken from communication strategies and objects that have a specific role within contemporary life are reproduced and mixed together, using crafty techniques as a way to empirically test their primary forms and push them to a point where they lose their polite functionality. In this body of works the artist combines a series of signifiers borrowed from advertisements, magazine pages, packaging and garments materials. In this process of appropriatio...Read more