Luisa Lambri

Luisa Lambri's (Como, Italy, 1969) work has been exhibited in some of the world’s most prominent museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US; the Menil Collection, Houston, US; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, US; Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; the New Museum, New York, US; Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, and the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy, among others. In 1999, Lambri received the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale for the display of her work in the Italian Pavilion. Luisa Lambri's photographs of architectural spaces portray the artist's own subjectivity when confronted with some of the most iconic structures of the 20th century. While her work upon first glance displays an enormous formal beauty, the artist subverts this quality through a process of abstraction, capturing only parts of the buildings and rendering them almost unidentifiable. In Lambri's photographs architecture becomes a purely transient form devoid of its authority and power. She currently lives in Los Angeles.