Lucrezia Testa Iannilli
QUALCOSA STA CAMBIANDO
The work, initiated several years ago across the national territory, aims to analyze and document the New Humans and the attitudes they adopt toward meat—one of the key pressure points of climate, ethical, and personal change. What would happen if all the inhabitants of the Earth were to convert to a meat-free diet? In industrialized countries, vegetarianism would bring environmental and health benefits. In developing countries, however, it would have negative effects in terms of poverty. Economic collapse can therefore be avoided not by completely replacing the consumption of meat and its derivatives—which would require unprecedented diversification efforts—but by scaling back this consumption. This would provide countries with the necessary time to transition their energy networks toward renewable infrastructures. Changing diet and habits thus becomes an unavoidable choice.
Text by Lucrezia Testa Iannilli
BIO
A photographer and performer working in contemporary art through the use of interdisciplinary investigative tools. In her research practice, she intervenes with installations and performative cycles in decontextualized spaces, using the human body and the animal body - particularly horses, a leitmotif of many actions and photographic works - as instruments of vision. Born in Rome in 1977, she initially pursued linguistic studies before entering the equestrian profession, first in Switzerland and then in Canada. Her true artistic and photographic research began in the following years, living between Belo Horizonte, London, Paris, and Palermo, where she experimented with her practices through personal and collective actions, also working as a photojournalist. This led to an initial collaboration with FPAC Gallery in Palermo and with actress-director Sabina Guzzanti, whom she followed for a year as a still photographer. Her subsequent photographic and performative projects have focused on giving form to the “immaterial,” in collaboration with institutions such as LUISS University and the MACRO Museum in Rome. She is currently developing the long-term project New Humans, an investigation into the preservation of the human being from an unusual, non-human perspective.