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December 10, 2009
Lucy Orta
Body Architecture
Trained as a fashion designer but working as an artist since the 1990s, Lucy Orta created “architectures with soul.” —objects that evoke the need for change, poetically prefiguring reality and suggesting alternative life styles. She has produced numerous interventions and actions, putting on stage crucial themes of the contemporary world: community, social exclusion, dwelling, mobility, sustainable development and recycling. With support from the UM Museum of Art (UMMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and the Chelsea River Gallery.
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Selected Bibliography
- London College of Fashion - Lucy Orta.
- Studio Orta.
- Lucy Orta. Contemporary artists. London: Phaidon. Fine Arts Library N 6797 .O78 L83 2003
- Drummond, Diana. Lucy Orta, "Art for Our Time": The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery.
- Orta, Lucy. 2007. Lucy + Jorge Orta Pattern Book: An Introduction to Collaborative Practices. London: Black Dog. Art Architecture & Engineering Library - Basement | N 6797 .O78 O78 2007
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