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From: ‘A private requiem’ – Long durational performance. \nThe Vivian Gallery (Matakana 2018)\nCredits: Craig Ray.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Worldwide, approximately 40 million children below the age of 15 are subjected to child abuse each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piece deals with Lupi’s personal experience of child abuse and offers an exploration on trauma-related performative behaviours and distorted recollections that might interfere with memory or its concealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the requiem Lupi develops a series of actions around the same focal point. Each action can be executed by the artist alone or with the support of the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worldwide, approximately 40 million children below the age of 15 are subjected to child abuse each year. The piece deals with Lupi’s personal experience of child abuse and offers an exploration on trauma-related performative behaviours and distorted recollections that might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,106,107,105,30,62,103],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-art","tag-artgallery","tag-ivanlupiprivaterequiem","tag-memory","tag-performance-art","tag-performance-artist","tag-trauma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ivanlupi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/P1022516-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1877&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EPTR-7t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5521,"url":"https:\/\/ivanlupi.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/before-and-after-george\/","url_meta":{"origin":463,"position":0},"title":"‘Before And After George’","author":"ivanlupi","date":"28th October 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Ivan Lupi \u2018Before and After George\u2019 Julia Ilina, Art historian Any object of art has a material and a method of working with it. 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