Lemeh42
born in 1978, lives and works in Italy
Statement
In my work I love to subvert the rules of the game.
In my animations I do not limit myself to just tell stories. I work with the firm intent to deconstruct the narrative form of the medium trapped between one frame and the next one. I want to throw off the expectations of the viewer’s eye. I don’t tolerate that a scene advances the next one. I want that every scene would be autonomous and at the same time conceptually linked to the following one.
In my most recent works, such as drawings, the work, because of it is based on a delicate and unstable balance between creation and destruction, the sign and its erasure, contains its own creative process that acquires to the viewer’s eyes a disruptive force.
Or as in my graffiti on glass, in which the paint, violently removed, leaves signs, erasures that become traits that give life to an image generated by its own negation.
I like to push the medium and the technique I’m using to its intrinsic limit, push it to the breaking point to bring out the maximum expressiveness, only in this way there is true creation.
Selected Personal Exhibitions
2016
“Drawing Renaissance”, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy
“Drawing Renaissance”, Remomero Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2015
2004 | 2014 video, animazioni, graffiti glass, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, curated and with a monograph by Eleonora Frattarolo, catalogue vanillaedizioni, Bologna, Italy
2014
“Pietas-Vanitas”, Level Gallery, curated by Steven Coy, Detroit, Michigan, Usa
“Human drawing, Live form”, A.C. Institute, New York City, Usa
2012
“No Man is an Island”, Fishbowl Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“Le Mystére de Hanina”, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
“Coito Ergo Sum”, Dispenser Gallery, Milan, Italy
“Avida Dollars”, Coexist Gallery, curated by Michaela Freeman, Southend on Sea, UK
Selected Collective exhibitions and Festivals
2016
Stanze della Meraviglia. Esotismo Fantastico Incanto nella Rocchetta Mattei, curated by and with the artistic direction of Eleonora Frattarolo , Grizzana Morandi, Italy videoanimation
2015
Arteam Cup, Officina delle Zattere, Venice, curated by Matteo Galbiati, Antonio D’Amico, Luca Bochicchio and Anna Lisa Ghirardi
Macrocosmi, Ordnungen der anderer art, Berlin Bologna, curated by Pascual Jordan and Martina Cavallarin, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin, Germany, “Holy Lines”, site specific installation, 33 graffiti glass
Macrocosmi, Ordnungen der anderer art, Berlin Bologna, curated by Pascual Jordan and Martina Cavallarin, Cubo Unipol, Bologna, Italy, videoanimazione
2014
Face/Off, Women portraits, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy
Engagement and entrapment, Binyamin Gallery, curated by Diana Ali, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Animalier, Oklahoma State University, Alva, Usa
2012
Parma White Night, Spazio Pasubio, curated by Elisabetta Modena, Parma, Italy
2011
Feminine, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy
The presence of Future, Brooklyn, New York, Usa
“Attraverso lo specchio” (Through the looking glass), Pico della Mirandola Castle, curated by Elisabetta Modena, Mirandola, Italy
Open Art Festival, Orebro, Sweden
2010
Gaza International Videoart Festival, Gaza, Palestine
File Festival , SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2009
Optica Festival, Festival Internacional de Vidoearte, Espacio Espora, Madrid, Spain
Pixilerations Festival, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
37th Festival on Nations, Worldwide Best Short Films, Ebensee, Austria
International Dance Video Festival, Yokohama, Japan
BANG, Festival Internacional de Video Arte, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Festival REC08 Festival de Cinema de Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain
The 809 International New Image Art Festival, Yichang City, China
New Media Art Biennale, Madeira, Portugal
Shnit 08, Berne, Switzerland
Awards
2015
Arteam Cup, Officina delle Zattere, Venice, Italy
2010
Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach, Florida, Usa
West Virginia Short Film Festival, West Virginia, Usa
2009
Iceber Prize, Bologna, Italy
