Bellissimissime
Bellissimissime explores the legacies of a generation of Italian artists born and trained in the 1990s, at the height of the Berlusconi era. Through their works, a landscape emerges in which the image becomes an instrument of power, and bodies are confronted with a culture saturated by the media and its promises of success.
These practices bear witness to fragmented trajectories: uprooted artists, artists facing the television screen, artists in transit. Each work resonates like a chapter in a shared history, where personal memory intertwines with collective narratives, and where the representation of gender is negotiated between desire, spectacle and resistance.
Bio
Ursulina de Lombardia is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of media, gender, and fiction. She blends performance, video, and installation to explore how femininity is constructed, performed, and circulated in contemporary visual cultures. Her work reappropriates mass media codes to examine how narratives shape identity and collective imaginaries, challenging boundaries between autobiography and invention, the intimate and the spectacular, while critically reflecting on power, representation, and the mediated female body across generations and geographies. Her work has been presented, among others, at MAXXI, Rome; one gee in fog, Geneva; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; Cripta747, Turin; Istituto Svizzero, Milan; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Arsenic, Lausanne (2023); Galerie Fabienne Levy, Lausanne.