Lucas Gabellini-Fava is a London-based artist. He graduated from the London College of Communication with a First-class Honours in photography. His work investigates the shifting of the body from the physical and tangible to the digital.
In recent works, he entangles elements of technology with memory, agony and satire, creating digital and physical installations.
Director of Chopped Liver Press
Part of Revolv Collective
Projects
- Carbon Copy (2800 Photographs of Men and Women)150 x 90cm, Unique (2020) Acrylic medium and photographic ash on canvas The work acts as a process of distillation, of boiling something down to its essence. Using something at its most bare, in its most primal and primitive state - the photographic as pigment, not as representation. The photographs are no longer fixed in time, instead burned, turned to ash and then brushed and affixed onto a canvas. They become stripped of their agency as imagery and simply exist as matter, as material. Depr
Projects credited in
- Residue Studies (2019)Residue Studies (2019) are hand-made paper works incorporating domestic dust that I have collected from different sources including my own family home. The process of sourcing, collecting and assembling the material is a personal ritual connecting me to the mystery of past events. Printed onto the paper are close-up digital photographs of skin photographed by artist Lucas Gabellini Fava in a recent collaboration project titled 'Collective Strategies'. In The Senses are Still (1996), anthropol
Work history
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In House PhotographerKymono
131 Finsbury Pavement, Finsbury, London EC2A 1NT, UKFreelance
In House Photographer for Kymono London and for all of their clients.
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Gallery TechnicianGoodman Gallery
26 Cork St, Mayfair, London W1S 3ND, UKFreelance
Freelance technician in charge of installing, deinstalling and archiving works.
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Skills
- Screen Printing
- Photo Assisting
- Art Gallery
- 120 Film
- Darkroom Printing
- Darkroom Processing
- Adobe Photoshop
- Book Design
- Adobe Indesign
- Lightroom
Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of The Arts London (UAL)
- London, United Kingdom
BA in Photography with a First Class Honours (Distinction)
Awards
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Winner of the Michael Wilson PrizeMichael Wilson Collection
First place winner of the Michael Wilson Prize upon graduation in 2019