PRODUCT DETAILS
22 x 14 x 6 cm
Diptych: Resin, Epoxic clay, Wooden Frame
2012
LARI DEL CUERPO Y DEL ALMA (Lari of Body and Soul in Spanish) are two epoxy and resin sculptures of fantastic creatures represented as saints.
Lari is a Roman god that protects. It was a reflection about religion and the artist perceive it as a collective fantasy.
It is also part of a larger project called Unconventional Beauty, where the artist is interested in working with fantastic creatures and deformed anatomies in order to find the fascination and the tenderness in the ugly.
She looks for an anti-classical esthetics, more interested in what can shock and call the attention. Francesca is experimenting with materials and with forms, and this is her very firs collection as a sculptor.
Her influences in this period are fantastic movies and literature, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, filmmakers as Lynch, Cronenberg and Swankmayer. She is interested in dreams as a way to cut off rationality from choices.