Lucia Pescador's 'Africa per sentito dire' at APALAZZO Brescia

At APALAZZO gallery in Brescia, the exhibition 'Africa per sentito dire e varia umanità' presents works by Lucia Pescador (born 1943, Voghera). Curated by Marta Sironi, the show mixes historical pieces with recent works addressing current events like the Ukraine war and the pandemic. Pescador, who calls herself a 'raccoglitrice di culture' (gatherer of cultures), uses paper with a prior life—pages from notebooks, books, and accounting ledgers—as supports for drawings, reflections, and paintings. The main salon features a large quadreria that visually encapsulates her poetics. Homages to 20th-century thinkers include Aby Warburg's 'Ritual of the Serpent' and a philatelic diary dedicated to Walter Benjamin, whom she calls her 'great love'. Touching wounded messenger birds symbolize interrupted stories of Ukraine war victims. Pescador's work expresses fertile suggestions of Asian and African imaginaries in a constant dialogue between nature and culture, never narrative or decorative. The exhibition offers a chance to see the world through her tireless eyes.