Isabella Luciani
Isabella Luciani’s practice is a visual demonstration of how she interprets the world around her, shaped by the stories, events, and environments she moves through. Painting becomes a way for her to reframe experience, both collective and personal into images that live between truth and memory. She is drawn to moments where history is still being written, where contemporary events begin to carry the weight of the historical, and she uses painting to hold onto those shifting points in time.
Through the appropriation of found imagery, media fragments, and archival references, Luciani constructs layered narratives that sit between past and present. These juxtapositions are not intended as fixed statements, but as invitations for reflection on how images form meaning, and how patterns of society reappear across generations. Oil paint, with its rich history of prestige and symbolism, becomes a way to both inhabit and question traditions of representation.
Her practice is informed by personal experience and the communities she is part of, filtering through a perspective shaped by class, culture, and lived reality. Luciani’s work does not prescribe answers, but instead creates space for dialogue on how narratives are formed, reshaped, and carried forward.