Lucas Bragagnini

I began my artistic training with technical studies in photography. From there, I developed an ongoing interest in connecting photographic imagery with various pictorial disciplines and image systems, exploring mixed pictorial and scenic resources that incorporate scenography, geometry, and color studies.
In my work, I develop projects that establish a dialogue between photography and drawing, exploring their interaction to create hybrid images. In this sense, I work as if engaging in an alchemical process where I become the camera, and I construct reality as though I were photographing it.
As Humberto Maturana states: "Nothing exists outside our minds, only experience, and experience is given and conditioned by the interpretation provided by our senses." This concept is central to my work. It inspires me to propose a game in the relationship between images—a fragmented narrative that prioritizes juxtaposition and the layering of one image over another.
My aim is not to confuse what is real and what is represented but to recognize, as in theater, that something can be both real and unreal at the same time. This perspective invites viewers to reflect on how images operate in the visual world, their capacity for meaning, and their expressive potential.
Ultimately, in my works, I strive to convey the sensation of the photographic instant—that moment when one aims, frames, and clicks the shutter.