Luisa Rabbia working on
Birth
2017
Colored pencil on acrylic on canvas
108 x 202 in
Photo credit: David Dixon
Courtesy the artist

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH LUISA RABBIA

My work starts with a countless number of fingerprints on canvas, my approach is physical and intuitive. Whether I intertwine pencil lines or I scratch through layers of paint, marks accumulate over a large surface referencing both time and the responsibility that comes with every single action. I imagine our bodies immersed in invisible traces left by humanity over the course of time, small particles that we breathe in and out and that inevitably determine a present never disconnected from past and future. I see the fingerprints as fossils, traces that are there, just waiting to interact with the making of the painting.