About

Lisa Mara Batacchi is an Italian American multidisciplinary artist born in Florence, where she is based.
She studied Fashion Design at Polimoda and then worked as a designer, more significantly for Vivienne Westwood in London. She completed her training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Her poetics brings to light the emotional ties between individuals and society, documenting a personal and a collective identity in relation to a holistic and ecological vision, to call attention to the precariousness of the ecosystem of which we are a part. Since 2013, she has focused on recovering textile techniques that are slowly disappearing from 21st century culture, both between oriental and western culture. By capturing the most subtle coincidences from the subject addressed in dreams, symbologies, numerology and philosophical references, she creates new time space patterns by using natural elements and dyes as an alchemic slow and layered manual process. Her art projects bear the traces of interactions between people, cultures, spaces and territories through two-dimensional works and site-specific environmental installations.

She has held solo exhibitions, including: Soulmates (Within Time), curated by Sumesh Sharma, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, 2015; The Time of Discretion, curated by Veronica Caciolli, MAD – Murate Art District, Florence, 2018; Shamal Sand Stone Stars, curated by Federica Forti, Dubai Design Week, 2022; Sand Storms in Medio Mundi I-III, curated by Alessandra Tempesti, Kunsthalle Lottozero, 2024; Group exhibitions include 4th LAM – Land Art Mongolia Biennale, curated by Valentina Gioia Levy; 2nd Something Else, Off Cairo Biennale, directed by Simon Njami; Manifesta12 Biennale collateral, curated by Art & Globalization; Silk, curated by Alfons Hug at GAD-Giudecca Art District, on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022; Un(common) Threads, Alserkal Avenue, curated by DesignEast, Dubai Art Week, 2023; 10th Europe Asia Mediations Biennale Polska, directed by Tomasz Wendland, Istanbul, 2023.

Her works have been published, among others, by Silvana Editoriale, Mousse Publishing, Studio Mut and have been reviewed nationally and internationally on VogueArabia, ArabNews, Mille World, Elle Decor and Mumbai Mirror.