Letizia Romanini

SUNOUSIA
(2023)

Back in Luxembourg, in her hometown of Esch-sur-Alzette, Letizia Romanini undertakes a hike along the country's borders. On this 356-kilometre journey, she photographs the surroundings, sometimes the landscape, sometimes small details and collects natural and artificial finds.

The hectic pace of everyday life gives way to the calm, meditative atmosphere of the landscape. Step by step, you get the feeling that nature is inviting you to become a part of it. The view widens and the boundaries of the land, which are often so precisely drawn on maps, become blurred in harmony with nature.

It is the small details, the inconspicuous elements of nature that bring us back to the here and now. What remains is the photograph: a detail, the captured moment or a colour composition.

Ultimately, Letizia Romanini creates a cartography of fragile spaces threatened by disappearance and awakens a feeling of solastalgia, a longing for a past, unchanged environment. Her art thus conveys not only aesthetic impressions, but also a deep awareness of the fragility and threat of nature.

Letizia Romanini (*1980) graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg with a BA in Visual Arts in 2006 and went on to complete the Object/Flexible Materials option directed by Edith Dekynt in 2009. Driven by a desire to pass on her knowledge and create collaboratively, she completed her training in 2018 with the CFPI - Centre de formation des plasticiens intervenants at the HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg).

© CDI / Laurent Sturm, 2024