Lucia Rossi uses her own body as subject and theatre in her photographs to explore questions of identity, connection and existence. She has recently completed a year long residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and is now living between Paris and Tasmania.

     Her recent studio works from Paris – ‘Film Noir’ and ‘Corps Caché’ – represent a transformation in her work from the ‘plein air’ nature sequence works from Tasmania. She continues her investigation of the body in relationship to site, place, object, psyche, but by contrast the new works deal more with the interior, the psychological, the theatrical.

     “Often I put ‘the theatrical’ in front of my work as a protection or a mask of my own personal identity, but it works both ways, as I know the mask comes from a deeply personal place…I interrogate a medium which is still magic to me. There are still discoveries in photography, and yet I love the purity of it; its place of origin. The making and breaking of limits and boundaries in technique, process and performance is a play with the medium as much as it is a play with life itself  “
     - Lucia Rossi, 2008

      A selection of the Corps Caché series is showing at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Gallery (20 February – 6 March, 2010).