Lucy Orta

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Trained as a fashion designer at Nottingham Trent University but working as a visual artist since the beginning of the 1990's, Lucy has realized what she called "architectures with soul". They are objects that respond to a critical and constructive gaze on the most sensitive areas of society, evoking 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: the community and social exclusion, dwelling, mobility, sustainable development, recycling. Parallel and feeding into her practice Orta was invested as the first Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion at London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London (2002-2007) and she now holds the title of Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment. Lucy was also a founding member of the Master in Industrial Design 'Man and Humanity' at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (2002), the first design program to stimulate socially driven and sustainable design.

Lucy Orta has collaborated with her husband Jorge Orta since 1991. Working in two historical buildings in Paris, they assemble artwork and installations with a team of curators, artists, architects, designers, and craftsmen using techniques of sculpture, couture, object making, painting, printing, and light projections.

A monograph, "Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food, Water, Life," will be published later this year by Princeton Architectural Press

http://www.studio-orta.com

Orta is an Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Studies

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http://www.sfai.edu/vas

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