Laura F. Gibellini

Laura F. Gibellini’s artistic practice is process-based and diagrammatic, and it materializes primarily through drawing, site-specific installations, video, object-making, and writing. At the core of her work lies an expanded understanding of drawing — moving away from the traditional notion of frontally framed, two-dimensional representation in favor of immersive, “environmental” projects.

Her practice begins by considering the notion of place and questioning how we relate to the world, eventually moving toward an investigation of the conventions we use to represent it and to what end — a path that takes her from the intimacy of the domestic sphere to the landscape and the environment.

Her most recent work focuses on elements that lie at the edge of visibility, at the limits of what can be represented, and thus at the limits of what can be thought. Specifically, she is interested in phenomena that lack a stable form, yet are essential to life — such as air, water, light, atmospheric or meteorological conditions in specific places, or the vital energy of a child’s gesture. She explores how the challenges of representation affect our understanding of the world: what cannot be represented cannot be recognized — and therefore cannot be fully thought. Gibellini’s work explores the gaps in representation and the possibilities of imagining the unthinkable.

She has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Canada), Matadero Madrid, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Künstlerhaus Glogauer in Berlin, the Capella de Sant Roc in Tarragona, the Museo de Los Sures in New York, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, the AC Institute in New York, the Centro de Arte Joven in Madrid, the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, The Gabarron Foundation in New York, Mass MoCA in North Adams, the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, UCCA in Beijing, Artist Space in New York, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, among others.

Her work is part of both private and public collections such as DKV, the Gregorio Prieto Foundation, and the collection of AECID – Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Clara Sánchez Sala – Portfolio 2025