Mimi Lanfranchi
Fine Art BA (Hons)
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Painting / Drawing / Sculpture
Location: London, United Kingdom
Mimi Lanfranchi
First Name: Mimi
Last Name: Lanfranchi
Specialisms: Painting / Drawing / Sculpture
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Fine Art BA (Hons)
About
Mimi Lanfranchi (b. 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. She is a graduate of BA Fine Art (4D+) Central Saint Martins. Her work explores remediated images existing between physical and digital spaces and the ways in which screens can serve as simultaneously concealing and revelatory objects. Recent exhibitions include Picture London Framing’s Summer Exhibition, A Slash of Blue at Gerald Moore Gallery and In the Garden at San Mei Gallery.
In Nevertheless, nestled one in another, a recessed cursor sits next to an enlarged painted depiction of the cursor. With the painted version seeming to move between layers, gliding over some and underneath others, the recessed one stays firmly buried, trapped in an entirely different plane from the painted image.
Competitions
Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Belonging to the risk (Noli me legere) is part of an ongoing body of work exploring the language of digital idiom, my use of which has become particularly evident within painting. This language involves replications of cursors, glitches, moiré patterns and most recently screen-door effect. I am particularly interested in the relationship between the material grids of screen based languages and those of painting.
Documentation through drawing is an important part of my practice. I am interested in the documentation of surface, time, angled viewing experiences and textures of existing works, and using this documentation as raw material to make new work. Thinking about documentation as a record of process, of material, texture and surface, the drawings utilise meticulous gridded systems to reveal frottage and debossed information. Areas where masking tape was used to hold down the paper are the only parts of the drawing left completely white.