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Sonia Lenzi
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Sonia Lenzi is a photographer and a visual artist. Her artistic practice adopts an interdisciplinary approach and revolves around interrelated themes, concerning identity, memories of people and places, mortality and gender. She uses photography to investigate, establish and recreate social relationships through signs, symbols, and gestures. She graduated initially in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, then from the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in Painting, finally graduating in Law. Her photographic project, ‘It Could Have Been Me’ (2015), was shown in Bologna High Speed Railway Station. ‘Lares Familiares’ was first exhibited at the Archaeological Museum in Naples (2016), and then at the Italian Cultural Institute in London (2019). ‘Last Portrait’ was presented at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths, University of London (2019). Take Me to Live with You. A Social Family Album’ at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, US (2021). ‘A Place to Live’ at Focus, Artphilein Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland (2023). Her work is in a number of private and public collections. She lives and works in Bologna and London.

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