Practice only impossibilities.
John Lyly
EN
I employ surprise as a means to unveil a sharper, universal form of fundamental knowledge.
Through performance art, installation, and drawing, I construct alternative realities whose internal systems are governed by a synthesis born not from the exclusion of the superfluous, but from the convergence of details.
If it were politics, it would be a utopian democracy of excess — a system in which interactions among parts emerge from the sum of exceptions rather than from the pursuit of a common perspective.
My work explores fragmentation, repetition, and the precariousness of the elements that shape human existence.
Utilizzo la sorpresa come elemento rivelatore di una conoscenza basilare universale più acuta.
Attraverso la performance art, l'installazione e il disegno costruisco realtà alternative, i cui sistemi interni sono regolati da una sintesi nata non dall’esclusione del superfluo, ma dalla convergenza dei dettagli.
Se fosse politica, sarebbe un’utopica democrazia dell’eccesso — un sistema in cui le interazioni tra le parti emergono dalla somma delle eccezioni piuttosto che dalla ricerca di una prospettiva comune.
Il mio lavoro esplora la frammentazione, la ripetizione e la precarietà degli elementi che plasmano l’esistenza umana.
IT
Lucia Bricco (Turin, 1988) is an Italian artist currently living in Rome. From 2018 to 2022, she lived and worked in Athens. She studied at the art academies of Turin, Madrid, and Rome.
Since 2020, she has been the co-founder of BEDS, a collective and constantly evolving artistic idea, structured as an international and mobile network of artists. BEDS promotes forms, combinations and different levels of international collaboration by adopting an open and non-hierarchical organisational model that places the work of art at the centre of a changing process of interaction between practices, languages and relationships.
Since 2015 she has taken part in several residencies, exhibitions, and performance festivals in in Europe and outside Europe (Italy, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Greece, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Finland, India, Belarus, China), such us: 2025 Days of Performance art in Lviv (UA); 2024 UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Chengdu (CHN); 2023 A-i-R Artist in Residency program, MeetFactory, Prague (CZ), 2022 MagiC Carpets European art residency, Nantes (FR); 2021 BLACK KIT, International Performance Art Archive DIE SCHWARZE LADE | BLACK KIT, Cologne (DE); she co-organized BEDS.athens Performance Art event with the patronage of the city of Athens; 2020 Performance Crossing, Prague (CZ); 2019 ZABIH Performance Festival, Lviv (UA), Performensk, Minsk (BY), This is the girl, A.T.E.N.A., Sète (FR), Platform Project ‘19 as a representative of Sub Rosa Space in Athens (GR); 2018 she organize the events Turin Table - Performance Art Week with the support of the city of Turin, and The Exhibition in a little Swimming Pool in Athens, Three goats (τρεισ κατσίκες), solo show, Sub Rosa Space, Athens (GR); 2017 Extrem moment as lasting value, performance workshop led by Helge Meyer in Köln (DE); Forming inattention: becoming lost, workshop by Sandra Johnston in Museumsbahnsteig, Oberhausen (DE); Performance Platform Lublin ad workshop Performance as experiment, led by Marylin Arsem, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL); 2016 Rome meet Glasgow, Museo MACRO Testaccio, Rome (IT); Fuori uso, Pescara(IT); 2015/16 Citè internationale des Arts, Paris (FR); 2015, Uscita d’emergenza, MACRO Testaccio Museum in Rome (IT); Siderare ’15, Fondazione VOLUME!, Rome (IT); TheOthers, Premio Rock The Academy, Ex Carcere Le Nuove, Torino (IT).
BIO
Lucia Bricco (Torino, 1988) è un'artista italiana che attualmente vive a Roma. Dal 2018 al 2022 vive e lavora ad Atene. Si forma presso le accademie d'arte di Torino, Madrid e Roma.
Dal 2020 è co-fondatrice della piattaforma artistica BEDS, un'idea artistica collettiva e in continua evoluzione, strutturata come una rete internazionale e mobile di artisti. BEDS promuove forme, combinazioni e diversi livelli di collaborazione internazionale adottando un modello organizzativo aperto e non gerarchico che pone l'opera d'arte al centro di un processo mutevole di interazione tra pratiche, linguaggi e relazioni.
Dal 2015 ha partecipato a diverse residenze, mostre e festival di performance in Europa e fuori dall'Europa (Italia, Spagna, Polonia, Ucraina, Germania, Grecia, Francia, Lituania, Repubblica Ceca, Bielorussia, Finlandia, India e China), tra cui: 2025 Days of Performance art in Lviv (UA); 2024 UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Chengdu (CHN); 2023 A-i-R Artist In Residency program, MeetFactory, Praga (CZ) 2022 MagiC Carpets, Creative Europe Platform, residenza artistica internazionale presso il centro culturale Trempo, Nantes (FR) 2021 BLACK KIT, International Performance Art Archive DIE SCHWARZE LADE | BLACK KIT, Cologne (DE); co-organizza l'evento internazionale di Performance Art BEDS.athens, evento patrocinato della città di Atene; 2020 Performance Crossing, Praga (CZ); 2019 ZABIH Performance Festival, Lviv (UA), Performensk, Minsk (BY), This is the girl, A.T.E.N.A., Sète (FR), Platform Project ‘19 in rappresentanza di Sub Rosa Space ad Atene (GR); 2018 organizza gli eventi Turin Table - Performance Art Week con il supporto della Città di Torino, e The Exhibition in a little Swimming Pool in Athens, Le tre capre (τρεισ κατσίκες), solo show, Sub Rosa Space, Athens (GR) 2017 Extrem moment as lasting value, performance workshop guidato da Helge Meyer a Köln (DE); Forming inattention: becoming lost, workshop di Sandra Johnston a Museumsbahnsteig, Oberhausen (DE); Performance Platform Lublin e workshop Performance as experiment, condotto da Marylin Arsem, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL); 2016 Rome meet Glasgow, Museo MACRO Testaccio, Roma (IT); Fuori uso, Pescara(IT); 2015/16 Citè internationale des Arts, Parigi (FR); 2015 Uscita d’emergenza, Museo MACRO Testaccio di Roma (IT); Siderare ‘15, Fondazione VOLUME!, Roma (IT); TheOthers, Premio Rock The Academy, Ex Carcere Le Nuove, Torino (IT).
