Lucrezia de Fazio

 WE BELONG HERE

Inkjet prints on cotton paper, 83 x 113 cm, 2021

We Belong Here is a series of photographs in which Lucrezia de Fazio explores the insides of different flowers, as the reproductive organ of the plant, questioning, manipulating, distorting, overlapping and blurring it.

In XIX century women in art school were assigned only the painting of flowers, of fruits, of still lives, portraits and genre scenes. Formal painterly education for men, meanwhile, revolved around the anatomy of the nude—in particular, the female nude. This was the status quo: While men painted women, women painted flowers. Women belonged in the garden.

For the artist, flowers represent the ultimate symbols, as the product of control, a defence against wilderness. the world as garden: domesticated.