Ludovica Anversa
Biography
Ludovica Anversa was born in 1996 and she studied at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan. Her painting explores a liminal territory, between figuration and abstraction, embedding personal imageries alongside hybrid theoretical and visual references, without ever referring to a linear narrative. Vulnerability and the relationship between perception and representation of the body are recurring themes in her work. Her process is deeply grounded in the idea of deconstruction and stratification, creating a continuous shifting between presence and absence, evocative potential and negation of the image. The figures inhabiting her paintings are uncanny and metamorphic presences that coexist simultaneously and reveal a subterranean complexity, contaminating each other without being annihilated. In her work, the body eludes the reassuring idea of its immediate definition and seems to dive and emerge from the surface. Its apparent fading leads to its indirect manifestation, radiographic and spectral, hovering between sensual and disturbing.
In 2020 she took part in the residency program of Palazzo Monti (Brescia) and Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence). Anversa’s exhibitions include: Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia (2022); New Galerie, Paris (2022); East Contemporary, Entreveaux (2021); ArtNoble, Milan (2021); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021); Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (2021); Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2020); Giorgio Galotti Gallery, Milan (2020); Adolfo Pini Foundation (2018). In 2021 she was the recipient of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for contemporary arts (Pieve di Soligo).
Ludovica Anversa was born in 1996 and she studied at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan. Her painting explores a liminal territory, between figuration and abstraction, embedding personal imageries alongside hybrid theoretical and visual references, without ever referring to a linear narrative. Vulnerability and the relationship between perception and representation of the body are recurring themes in her work. Her process is deeply grounded in the idea of deconstruction and stratification, creating a continuous shifting between presence and absence, evocative potential and negation of the image. The figures inhabiting her paintings are uncanny and metamorphic presences that coexist simultaneously and reveal a subterranean complexity, contaminating each other without being annihilated. In her work, the body eludes the reassuring idea of its immediate definition and seems to dive and emerge from the surface. Its apparent fading leads to its indirect manifestation, radiographic and spectral, hovering between sensual and disturbing.
In 2020 she took part in the residency program of Palazzo Monti (Brescia) and Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence). Anversa’s exhibitions include: Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia (2022); New Galerie, Paris (2022); East Contemporary, Entreveaux (2021); ArtNoble, Milan (2021); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021); Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (2021); Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2020); Giorgio Galotti Gallery, Milan (2020); Adolfo Pini Foundation (2018). In 2021 she was the recipient of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for contemporary arts (Pieve di Soligo).
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Ludovica Anversa
Works
- Ludovica Anversa, Abbracciando la tua ombra le mie ossa si inarcavano come fiori (I), 2020Oil on linen, 70x90 cm
- Ludovica Anversa, Kiki’s kiss(I), 2021Oil on linen, 30x35 cm
- Ludovica Anversa, Kiki’s kiss (II), 2021Oil on linen, 30x35 cm
- Ludovica Anversa, Not my baby, 2021Oil on linen, 16x20 cm (each)
Exhibitions

Entr~Acte
Apr 19th – May 22nd, 2021
Critical text by Chiara Alice Guidi
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