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INVITED ARTIST
BARBARA PAZZAGLIA
Lives and works in Rome, Italy
https://www.celesteprize.com/barbara.pazzaglia
Nature is a primary inspiration for me. I have a transcendental de Tournefort, commissioned by Louis XIV to locate new plants, many
idealistic love of it like Merleau Ponty does of knowledge. In which of which are found in Giverny in Monet’s garden. Furthermore, the
there is identification between me and nature that can be drawn decor of Versailles created by Louis XIV is also a source of inspiration
through intuition and contemplation. My favorite nature is the since the similarity is no longer a source of knowledge, but rather the
one found in Himalayas where there is no dust nor humidity. The occasion for error, the danger to which we expose ourselves when we
Himalayan plants were brought to France by the botanist Joseph Pitton do not examine the bad place shadowed by confusion (Foucault).
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