LUCiA MiG – Sud

Sud is a reflection on southern Italy, particularly Puglia, the region my family comes from, and my relationship to a place that feels both familiar and distant.

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The works come from travelling through towns, streets and landscapes that I recognise instinctively, despite hardly knowing them. I experience southern Italy partly as a traveller, and partly through inherited memory of family stories, rituals, food, objects and a visual language that already feels embedded in me.

My approach to painting is intuitive. The surface, scale and brushes often determine how I respond to a subject. Smaller works invite close observation and a quieter realism, while larger canvases allow for a looser, more gestural language. It often feels as though different versions of me are painting.

Puglia is sun-bleached stone, brilliant blue skies, narrow streets and generations of olive trees and fruit growing from dry earth. There’s a particular atmosphere to the south: slower, warmer and deeply sensory.

Through paintings of people, places and things, Sud explores nostalgia, belonging and the strange intimacy of returning to somewhere that has always been part of you.

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