Laura Mega
Born 1973, Rome, Italy
Laura Mega
Born 1973, Rome, Italy
Her practice combines drawing, text, embroidery, wool yarn, and printing. In addition, she sometimes uses other materials (such as pink epilating wax) on old trousseaus: sets of clothes, linens, and other accessories that a bride would bring with her to the new house.
Laura Mega works between Rome and New York. She is the creator and curator of the ‘DREAMERS’ art project and co-founder of the ‘LAZZARO_art doesn’t sleep’ project. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and at the University of Image in Milan (a school centered on the five senses founded by photographer Fabrizio Ferri).
Through a contemporary and straightforward language, Laura Mega transforms symbols of a constricted and predefined femininity into works capable of conveying and investigating emotional, social, and political issues, where the irony leaves the observer responsible for the different depths of reading and interpretation. Laura Mega has exhibited at Ivy Brown Gallery (NYC), M55 Art Gallery (NYC), Resobox Gallery (NYC), Endless Biennial (NYC), Sejong Museum of Art (Seoul), MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome), MADXI (Latina), Every Woman Biennial (London), Clio Art Fair (NYC), BAF – Bergamo Art Fair, Textile Museum of Busto Arsizio for the WTA – World Textile Art_Textile Biennial, Embroidery Museum (Valtopina), KOU Gallery (Rome). She has had collaborations with Moleskine S.p.A., SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS (Los Angeles), PULSE Art Fair – Art Basel Miami, Culture Monks (India), SENSE LAB (Milan), The Blue Bus Project (NYC). With the publishing house Pulcinoelefante (Milan), she has produced two artist’s books in a 33-copy limited edition. In 2021 she wrote and illustrated two artist books: “Amazoniano_ il nuovo HERO”, the result of her performative research on Amazon warehouse workers, and “ThePinkSide of WTF” in two versions, one of which is to be colored. Her work is part of the Moleskine Foundation, KOU Gallery, and private collections.
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