The life of images, their hybridization and overlapping, is central to the research of Barbara  De Vivi. In particular, she is interested in how an image survives over time to re-emerge in new contexts, leaking from the stratification of eras that separates it from our present.

 

In her paintings she bridge traditional iconographic motifs with personal istances and contemporary aesthetics, outlining tales that, while referring to a shared cultural heritage, remain open in the coexistence of meanings.

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She is guided in the choice of subjects by an emotional identification through which she weaves links between her private experiences and the themes of art history, in an attempt to give shape to her present.

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