Lucrecia Urbano
A challenge I
overcame: To dive at night
A dream for my future: To be able to fly.
A
hope for the global community: That borders don't exist.
Lucre is the founder and energy force behind the socially focused artist community of Zona Imaginaria, which offers both the open residency that Camilla is currently participating in, and art workshops to local children and youngster from the local community of Buenos Aires' La Tigre.
The children's involvement and development over the years has been a huge motivation for Lucre and the interactions and exchanges between them and the visiting artists are fascinating to see around the studio. Lucre spoke of how the visiting artist all see, respond to and represent the surrounding are and community so differently that it is often like being presented with an entirely different place when she views their work. With this in mind she has plans this year to facilitate the local kids who come to her workshops in creating their own maps of memories, impressions and opinions about the local area which she will gather in a book that presents La Tigre from their perspective. I was excited to notice our shared interest in searching for the point of view and perspective of others, and really happy that Lucre was interested in my postcard project and keen to use it with her kids... brilliant!
Some of the results of a fascinating project by resident artist Camila Otto exploring memory through portraiture. The artist invited the children who come to the weekend workshops at Zona Imaginaria to look at her face and features thoroughly, then she donned a hood or turned away from them and asked them to draw her portrait as they remembered her.
Lucre herself comes from a background in Fine Arts and has traveled a winding path career wise to reach this point of being 'at home' in her project, here in the house and workshop at ZI running her own autonomous artist community, connected with numerous other similar projects around South America. Buying the run-down house in what was perceived to be a dodgy area of Buenos Aires, to run an autonomous art project at a time when she had also been offered a temptingly well-paid job in Brazil may have seemed a risky choice to some at the time, but as the project has come together and developed over the years the choice has proven itself to be a brilliant one. I was certainly impressed by the scope and depth of the projects that I saw signs of in my brief visit (both by visiting artists and Lucre, who was mid-complicated wiring experiment upstairs when I arrived and joined Camilla for a tour of the space). I was also really moved both by Lucre's focus on the local children and in her quiet but firm knowledge that she is in her right place on her correct path, doing what she is meant to be doing. Very inspiring.
Lucre, fue un gusto conocerte, gracias por todo que me mostraste y compartiste en tan corto aquel rato de tiempo (incluso el vuelto hasta el centro y el yogur!)
Esperando a colaborar con ustedes lo mas pronto que pueda.
Suerte en todos los proyectos de Zona Imaginaria, y en tu trabajo personal.
Un abrazo
:-)
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