Lauro Govoni
MA Art and Media Practice (Full time)

Project Proposal

A Journey into Perceptions searching for the Invisible


The project I am working on is based on how human perceptions work in relation to the visible world, how images are read and inhabit our reality.
Consequently I am interested to explore how physical images might reveal more of the metaphysical world through their visual language.
The aim of my project is to question that part of reality shaped by images, and more or less believed as real, with the construction of pictures which doubt their own nature.
This is part of an ongoing process started few years ago, during my BA Fine art studies. But even before, in everyday life, the search of a “different truth” had already
started looking at how the media present their messages, how different people interpret events in different ways, and how advertising images populate our environment, for example.

For this project I intend to try as many different medium and technique as I possibly can. I will use medium that I am not familiar with, (like video and animation). Experimenting I will try to see how different the message can be read, according to the language of the material, but also to let the mistake of the exploration process to reveal the unexpected with the possibility of creating new ideas.

At this point I don’t have a clear idea about a final form or presentation of my work, but I am thinking of a 2D kind of work presented possibly in a large scale which involves the use of more than one medium.
So far I have been gathering material related to my personal interest. The majority of my research has been done through philosophy and art history, but also looking at contemporary art and media events, and the diffusion of commercial images.
For my researches I need to look more into the contemporary art and critical debates, the technical aspects of the media, and also at the relation between art and the global economy.
To do so I think I will need to develop a research method which goes beyond the library type, (and the lectures I am taking at the moment just start to broaden the possibility), also to acquire more skills in video, painting and possibly animation techniques, and to improve technical and intellectual practices.

Undertaking this project I am working experimentally hoping to develop a more personal style of art-making with a broader knowledge of the cultural and intellectual context.
Through teaching tutorial and group work, but also from external viewer’s feedback, I will try to analyze to what extent I have been more or less successful in communicating and developing concepts and ideas related to my practical work.