Jack Lumer

Despite the variety of techniques, the works of Jack Lumer (Milan, 1998) are all united by an elegant coherence, which with a few minimal touches manages to condense spirituality, memory, Jewish tradition, and fragments of family history. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of London and later from NABA, he creates images that seem to struggle against a slow process of erosion and oblivion, as in Weight of a Soul (2023) or in the project A Good Life (2021), where photographs of his great-grandfather—who fled to Switzerland to escape racial persecution—are poured onto cyanotype, recalling the blue left by cyanide on the walls of gas chambers. Infinite Light (2024), dedicated to his grandparents, replaces the solemnity of memorials with the lightness of sheets crossed by light, in a dialogue between absence and presence, between what dissolves and what stubbornly remains.

Giulia Oglialoro