“Her visually engaging work, anchored in environmental concerns, forces us to consider our place within a grander narrative. In the context of a global pandemic, I feel her work provides an urgent alternative position to the one played out by the media and our governments. This weekend, as an extension of this project, Lucia will show a newly configured site-specific installation at Peckham 24, consisting of collage, ceramics and video. Within this, she will incorporate materials drawn from both her South American heritage and the UK, where she has been based since 2007.”

Pizzani’s physical environment, especially during her residencies abroad, often provides her with both the inspiration and physical materials for her work. Having worked as part of the environmental movement in her home country, Venezuela, for many years, she has always incorporated ecological elements into her pieces, which address gender, body and nature and feature a mixture of photography, performance, installation, sculpture and video.

She says her inspirations come from “a mix of growing up in Caracas, a city full of public art, and travelling the Amazon, the Andes and Caribbean coast, and then having absorbed the culture in the UK, but always with an emphasis on the body and our relationship to nature and materiality in our past and present”.

She adds: “I’m preparing my first survey exhibition in Caracas this summer, in a beautiful art centre, the Hacienda La Trinidad. It’s going to be very emotional coming back after six years of not being able to visit due to the country’s crisis.”

Before then, you can view Pizzani’s work at Peckham 24 this week, at the Sapling Gallery in Mayfair alongside Vanessa da Silva until 26 May, and in Venice at the Palazzo Bollani in “PlanetB: Climate Change and the new Sublime”, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and on display until 26 June.