Lucrezia Costa

Lucrezia Costa is an Italian visual artist based in Reykjavík. She holds a BA in Photography and recently graduated with an MFA from the Iceland University of the Arts. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, and relational formats, exploring the role of art in addressing fractured relationships between humans, landscapes, and other living beings. Through her work, she engages processes of restoration and repair —material, ecological, and social—attending to both loss and the possibility of renewed connections.

Landsleg
Site-responsive outdoor installation; turf, wood structure, tarpaulin

Landsleg explores embodied relations between the human body and the land. Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Guðrún Johannesdóttir’s work on embodied knowledge, the project takes its point of departure in the Icelandic word landsleg—an archaic term for landscape that also echoes leg, meaning womb or resting place (legstaður). Installed within the Icelandic terrain, the work takes the form of a concave, bowl-like shelter set into the ground. Formed through coiled layers of turf, moss, and plant matter, it creates a soft, vegetal enclosure that visitors can enter, lie in, or inhabit temporarily. Landsleg holds the body, bringing it into direct contact with the soil, opening a sensory space where connection to the land unfolds through touch, weight, and immersion.