Letizia Romanini, a Luxembourg-based visual artist, draws on her travels to create suspended moments in a multidisciplinary practice that combines photography, sculpture, and craftsmanship—making tangible the links between landscape, memory, and matter, notably through straw marquetry, a French tradition dating back to the 17th century. For Nature singulière, she presents Dent-de-lion, a diptych in straw marquetry that ennobles a form of nature of- ten marginalised, yet deeply resilient. Affected by solastalgia and eco-anxiety, the artist chooses the dandelion as a symbol of adaptation and perseverance. Each panel, crafted from dyed rye straw and meticulously laid by hand, reveals the shimmering reflections and silky texture of this ancient material—once known as ‘poor man’s gold’. This slow and demanding technique gently interrupts the pace of the world. By highlighting a plant often perceived as undesirable, Letizia Romanini offers a poetic reinterpretation of biodiversity and ecological responsi- bility. Dent-de-lion celebrates the quiet beauty of what survives and adapts—a luminous and committed work in which fragility becomes strength.
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