Bio

Carolina Lombardi lives and works in Rome.

She trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome, where she deepened her study of the relationship between material, time, and transformation processes. She graduate with an experimental thesis on artificial azurites, presented in 1998 at the Louvre Museum (“Art and Chemistry” Congress), Paris.

Over time her practice has shifted from conservation techniques to the constructing of new visual ecosystems.

Her research unfolds through a variety of media, including textiles, light, video and site-specific installation. It stems from the observation of reticular patterns found in nature and extends to linguistic structures, conceived as a “fabric” of relationships.

Spiderwebs and behavioral patterns of simple organisms such as protists, bacteria and insects, become tools of inquiry into complex systems and their nonlinear configurations.

At the centre of her work is the idea of a diffused and relational intelligence, not exclusively human, which connects human beings, other species, and technology within a single interdependent environment.

In many projects, Carolina collaborates with researchers in neuroscience, chemistry, and astrophysics, integrating methods and models from these fields into her practice.

The light installations and spatial weavings she constructs function as sensitive environments: they make visible and invisible networks perceptible and invite those who move through them to reposition themselves within a shared fabric, placing the relationships between different life forms at the centre of the experience.