Laura Pugno

Throughout her career, Laura Pugno has had an experimental approach that is informed by our relationship with the landscape, understood not so much as a natural entity but as a social construct. More specifically, she is interested in how we experience landscape, and how we record what we see – and what we don’t see.

In Paesaggio dietro di te (Landscape Behind You), Pugno sketched mountain views in the field, engraving them onto plexiglass. However, rather than drawing simple, frontal views, she portrayed the reflection, complete with a gap where her body blocked the view. This absence, and the suggestion of the effect of the human body on the landscape, is incorporated into the final piece.

Laura Pugno (Trivero, 1975) lives and works in Turin. Her shows include Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania (2019), Fondazione Zegna, Trivero (2017), and MART of Trento and Rovereto (2014). In 2013 she was awarded the Cairo Art Prize. Since 2004 she has been a lecturer at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Turin.