Wanneer je binnenkomt in mijn workshop, begrijp je meteen dat mijn passie voor stillevens niet slechts een artistieke keuze is maar een persoonlijk instrument om de werkelijkheid mee te analyseren. Het is alsof ik in mijn eigen werk wil leven om het ten volle te begrijpen. In onze tijden kan een voorwerp uit eender wel tijdskader of plaats stammen maar tegelijkertijd ontgaat de origine ons ervan omdat het voorwerp niet voor zichzelf kan spreken. Het is dus niet het onderwerp dat een stilleven interessant maakt maar de esthetische geste waarmee het is afgebeeld. De afbeelding van een bepaald voorwerp is slechts een excuus voor de arbeid van het afbeelden zelf. Het ware onderwerp van een stilleven zijn de omstandigheden, gedachten en esthetiek die het tot stand brachten.

Bio / Credits

Linda Carrara was born on December 4th, 1984 in Bergamo, Italy.
She works and lives in-between Ghent, Brussels and Milan.
Bachelor: ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRERA 2003-2007 department of contemporary art
Master: KASK SCHOOL GENT 2014-2015 multi media department

Between 2006 and 2012 she worked as an assistant to Vincenzo Ferrari, the Italian conceptual and visual poetry artist.
At KASK she is doing her internship with Michael Borremans.

Since 2010 she presented several exhibitions in private galleries and Italian museums.
She recently presented a slide show in Fabric space, Moscow and participated in the group exhibition “ma patience a des limites” in DuboisFriedland Gallery in Brussels. On 18 May 2015, she will be part of the presentation of the Benetton collection in the Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy.

WINNER Premio terna 06
painting section
curated by Cristiana Collu and Gianluca Marziani
November 2014

PREMIO CAIRO 2012
CAIRO EDITOR
invited by Luca Beatrice
Permanent Museum Milano

Mostre personali

2014
“Be.Per agire occorre essere avvolti nelle illusioni”
(Be.to act one need to be wrapped on the illusion)
Rivoli2 Fondation
Milano Italy

2012
“ALCHIMIA DEL BUIO”
(alchimy if the dark)
cured by AnnaLisa Ghirardi
GiaMaArt studio- Benevento

2011
“DIORAMA”
text by Sara Rossotti (restorer)-Beniamino Sidoti (writer)- Serena Vailetti (curator and journalist)
Obraz Gallery – Mi

2015

Projection of I’m a still life video
slide show cured by Yulia Smirnov and Anna Evtyugina
ЦТИ Фабрика
FABRIKA
Moscow

“LE KABINET DU DESSIN”
le Kabinet
Bruxelles

“MA PATIENCE A DES LIMITES”
curated by Hervé Ic
DuboisFriedland Gallery
Bruxelles

2013

“LAST YOUNG IN ITALY”
CURated BY ROSSELLA FARINOTTI, LLORENZO RESPI e ARIANNA BALDONI
Villa Brivio - nova milanese

“SE IL PITTORE NON DISPREZZA LA PITTURA”
Curated by Viola Invernizzi
Galleria Alessio Moitre
Torino

When you enter my workshop, you can immediately understand that my passion for the still life is not just an artistic choice, but also a personal means to analyze reality. It is as if I try to live in my own work, in order to fully understand it. In our times we can own objects from any period and any place, but not one of them is able to tell about the place it comes from, so ultimately we can't be sure of its origins. It is not the subject as such that can make a work more or less interesting but its aesthetic sense and pictorial qualities. This also goes when the medium is video or installation.
The representation of an object is merely an excuse for the act of representing, or painting. Painting thus becomes the way and the subject-object, and the still life is not just a representation of an object, but a way of thinking the world.