Your name
Lucia Caspani
Place of birth
Gallarate, Italy
Place where you live now
Barcelona, Spain
3 words to describe you
Melancholy, transformation, snail.
Why do you take pictures?
Because it is a means by which I can investigate my inner world, trying to bring it outside and make it universal for others.
Where do you get your inspiration?
From all those little things that speak without words: trees, rocks, water, light. From the pebbles I collect. From my roots, coincidences, magic and invisible things.
Who are your influences?
In recent years I have been getting into the world of anime, I think they are my biggest source of inspiration at the moment. I am fascinated by the way many of these attribute an almost animistic presence to places, natural elements, objects, loading them with symbolic meanings. It's a perspective that gives me calm and influences my thinking a lot. And then there are the books and films that come at the right time: Sacro Minore by Franco Arminio and Long Day's Journey into Night by Bi Gan, they are some of my fixations lately.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
I'm attracted to the things we have before our eyes but often don't see, they're the things I can communicate with best. With ho sognato rocce bianche di luce, which is the only thing I enjoy photographing right now, it's a real treasure hunt (or rather, magic hunt). Every place speaks in its own way, I enjoy trying to understand it and give it a new meaning, mine.
What impact would you like your art to have?
That it was “the right thing at the right time” for those who meet it.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
The work of Yves Klein and Constantin Brancusi never tires me.
Is there anything you want to add?
Sacri sono gli abbracci che fanno luce nelle ossa
(Sacred are the hugs that make light in the bones)
Franco Arminio, Sacro Minore

Ho sognato rocce bianche di luce
Project statement

Ho sognato rocce bianche di luce is a visual and research-based project that investigates traces of ritual practices and symbolic systems embedded in landscape. Starting from the Lake Maggiore area, where my roots lie, and from the Italian Alps—among erratic boulders and cup-marked rocks—the work follows material signs of prehistoric sacredness and their persistence in contemporary space. The project then expands toward other territories marked by deep archetypal stratifications, such as the Etruscan world, Ancient Egypt, and the Iberian Peninsula, establishing connections between distant cultures and temporalities, seeking connections between elements that, though distant in culture and time, move toward the same unseen, magical energy. My intention with this work is to create a ritual notebook, a personal grimoire that combines invention, myth and memory. A visual amulet that can dispel fear and create a new sacred dimension. I searched for signs that have become layered over time until they became matter of memory, so as to evoke an archaic, suspended time where life and death, visible and invisible, are not opposites but continuous exchanges. This work is an attempt to reactivate ancient symbols to give shape to a new intimate and collective memory.

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