A critical essay by Roberta Bertozzi on Ana Lupas’ project Armature, exploring identity, memory and resistance in contemporary art between collective ritual and self-portraiture.

Some reflections on the profound meaning of the work of art in the contemporary. This text revisits an excerpt from the essay “An Alien Body” by curator and art critic Roberta Bertozzi, originally published in 2018 in a catalogue produced by Galleria Gasparelli Arte Contemporanea, Fano.

This article examines the artist’s studio as a primary epistemological space in contemporary art, framing “The Scene of the Contemporary” as a curatorial investigation into the studio as a site of thought and material process.