Letizia Lopreiato | Summer Residency
Visual-poet artist and photographer @letizia_lety_lopreiato will showcase her three year creative documentary “Sonia’s Trees” shot on 35mm film on Waterford’s Copper Coast. The artist will present this body of work as the result of her summer residency at with us. Letizia Lopreiato’s most recent creative documentary and visual poetry project will launch on the 7th.
She has been a poet since the age of twelve years old, and she has embraced photography three years ago, a few months after the diagnosis of her visual impairment.
This moment represented a life changing event for her, since, in her own words…
About the Artist
@letizia_lety_lopreiato is a visual poet artist and film photographer from Dublin (originally from Italy), engaged in reclaiming a different way to tell a story, from impairment to empowerment, from grief to love, from confinement to acceptance, social inclusion and equality.
She has been a poet since the age of twelve years old, and she has embraced photography three years ago, a few months after the diagnosis of her visual impairment.
This moment represented a life-changing event for her, since, in her own words…
“It developed as the starting point of the most incredible journey of self – discovery I have ever experienced. A journey which guided me in the acceptance of my own identity as a professional artist.
Letizia Lopreiato
About Sonia's Trees
“Sonia’s Trees” is the artist’s new creative documentary, a body of work created over the past three and a half years, documenting the journey of self-discovery of one of her dearest friend, and her move as a single mum from Dublin to the West of Ireland, to follow her dream and above all her vision, the one of creating a more sustainable future for herself and her kids, in support of the cause of reforestation of Ireland thanks to its native seeds and trees.
As the topic grew in Letizia’s heart, she has decided to create an art – based awareness campaign on the topic of eco-sustainability, inspired by the theme of food for this year festival @photoirelandfst , which this project’s is part of in its open program, as supported by the Enviromental Psychology Association of Ireland @eeai_ecopsychologyireland.
The project and its art-based awareness campaign was launched on last Thursday July 22nd both on Zoom and IGTV live, and it will be running until August 30th, across six locations in Ireland, between Dublin and the City of Waterford, where this project’s work will be showcased as part of the artist’s summer residency at @gomagallerywaterford.