Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present the gallery’s third solo exhibition by Lucía Pizzani (b. 1975, Caracas). Pizzani’s research-based practice, informed by her studies in conservation biology and her involvement in Venezuela’s environmental movement, is concerned with the intertwining narratives of natural and human histories. In this immersive exhibition, Pizzani presents newly commissioned and site-specific works which hold in their material makeup interspecies stories of migration: of plants and their products, cultural practices, and the artist’s own migration from Venezuela to London.
Pizzani presents new ceramic works, including her freestanding sculptural Flora Totems made at Rochester Square, London. Sites of cultural convergence, they are made from English clay and white slip, and imprinted with plants such as corn and eucalyptus, as Pizzani invokes the histories of flora both native and imported to South America. These anthropomorphic, guardian-like sculptures watching over the gallery space reflect Pizzani’s tendency to identify spirit-like imagery within natural forms, exploring concepts of interconnectivity across plant and animal worlds.