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Her artistic research develops through an ongoing dialogue between the external world and the inner dimension, transforming memory, body, nature and emotion into suspended images. After an early phase focused on social themes and urban reality, her visual language gradually shifted toward a more intimate dimension, where the boundary between what is real and what belongs to perception and imagination becomes increasingly subtle.
In recent years, her research has focused particularly on the relationship between the human figure, water, air, light and matter. In the landscapes of Suspended Atmospheres, horizons, liquid surfaces and skies seem to merge, giving rise to spaces without fixed coordinates — places that are mental before they are natural. The images inhabit a transitional zone, where what appears seems always capable of changing or dissolving.
The Immersed Women series brings this research into the realm of the female figure. Bodies emerge from or disappear into water and painterly matter, while their boundaries gradually become less defined. Water is not merely a natural element: it becomes a space of memory and transformation, a place where body and nature seem to merge once again. The transparency of resin heightens this sensation, creating a continuous oscillation between figure and environment, presence and dissolution.
Acrylic, enamel and resin create surfaces crossed by veils, reflections and layers. Resin, which has been present in Lauriola’s work since 2010, is not simply a finishing element but an integral part of the language of the work: it captures light, enhances depth and alters the perception of what lies beneath and beyond the surface. Her painterly gesture moves between control and impulse, allowing images to emerge in a balance between definition and dissolution.
From this same research come the Clouds of Light, luminous sculptures in organza and resin, in which transparency, matter and light create a suspended presence. The clouds transform an ephemeral, intangible form into a physical presence while retaining the sense of something that could change or disappear at any moment. Painting and sculpture thus meet around the same core idea: making visible what normally cannot be held — light, air, memory, passage. The luminous dimension has become a natural extension of her painterly research.
Her exhibitions have been curated by Hans Achtner, Giorgia Calò, Maurizio Calvesi, Antonietta Campilongo, Cristina Del Ferraro, Manuela De Leonardis, Federica Di Stefano, Micol Di Veroli, Barbara Drudi, Carlo Ercoli, Gianluca Marziani, Manuela Pacelli, Sergio Rispoli, Rossella Savarese and Agnieszka Zakrzewicz.
Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and recognitions. She was a finalist for the Singulart International Women’s Day Award 2025. In 2021, during the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she received the Arbiter Fata Verde Award, while in 2022 one of her works was selected for the cover of Arbiter magazine. She received an Honourable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in both 2020 and 2022, and was a finalist for the Premio Lupa 2020 and the Premio Celeste 2007. In 2015, she won the competition organised by the Museo Pier Maria Rossi.
Her works are held in public and private collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest Art Collection in Rome, the Antonio Sapone Municipal Art Gallery in Gaeta, The First Roma Arte and Abitart Hotel.
From 2021 to 2025, she took part in numerous contemporary art fairs, including Roma Arte in Nuvola, as well as fairs in Genoa, Padua and Parma. In 2020, she was included in the De Agostini Atlas of Contemporary Art.
Her career has led her to exhibit both in Italy and internationally. She was a guest of honour at the International Photo Festival in Łódź, Poland, in 2006, and has held solo exhibitions in institutional venues including the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus in 2010 and the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo in 2024. She has also exhibited in museums and institutions including MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Palazzo Merulana, La Vaccheria – Cultural Centre of Roma Capitale, and the Museo Correale di Terranova.