I will survive, 2002

Lorenzo Scotto Di Luzio’s work stands out by virtue of a gaze on the world which is both ironic and cutting, tempered with e slight sense of nostalgia and a badly concealed degree of scepticism with regard to existing social dynamics. Through an approach open to the various forms of expression, from installation to drawing, from video animation to performance, his production is part of a wider reflection on the body and self-representation. The encounter in his early years with the Neapolitan Giuseppe Desiato, an anti-conventional figure in the panorama of performance art, had an influence over the ensuing developments in his research. [...]