Trained as an anthropologist, after my PhD I studied painting and drawing and I am presently a master student in the visual arts. In my artistic research, I merge the language of contemporary art with the research practice and approach of anthropology. I turn anthropology into...
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Trained as an anthropologist, after my PhD I studied painting and drawing and I am presently a master student in the visual arts. In my artistic research, I merge the language of contemporary art with the research practice and approach of anthropology. I turn anthropology into art, and art into anthropology, in any specific context I happen to work in, both as an artist and as a curator. My work does not have therefore the artificial consistency of ‘style’. My visual language, the materials I use and the way I employ and display them vary according to the context I am working in and to the purpose of my artistic research: anthropology taught me that we have to be attentive to the ‘local mind’, and this is what I do, as an artist and a curator.
Lorenzo Bordonaro holds a MA in Philosophy (Torino, Italy) and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology (ISCTE, Lisbon). He studied painting and drawing at ArCo and is presently MA candidate in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon.
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