ARTWORKS
Take a moment to explore and experience the unique touch in each piece.
"I started painting to respond to a deep inner need. I believe that my art can help people discover and better understand themselves, offering a mirror for self-knowledge and personal growth."
EXHIBITIONS
GODITELA
A celebration of life, pleasure, and feminine energy as both a sacred and everyday act. Through instinctive dripping and meditative gestures, Goditela invites viewers to fully embrace existence, the body, and the present moment.
CERCHIAMI
A dialogue born from encounter and artistic exchange, where the circle becomes a symbol of connection, search, and return. Cerchiami explores the human need to recognize oneself through others and to create authentic bonds.
ONORA
ONORA explores the invisible legacy held within matter, where linen, pigment, and gesture carry memory across time. It reminds us that we are not the owners of the world, but its guests.
Solo Exhibition
“Goditela” is more than an exhibition, it is a manifesto. The fractured word contains layers of meaning: God, evoking transcendence; Godi, an invitation to enjoy life’s beauty; and Tela, the artist’s canvas as a mirror of existence.
Presented in the ex Church of Gesù e Maria, the show embodied a journey into joy, pleasure, and the divine in everyday life. Lorena’s signature 7-metre color throw technique turned unpredictability into visual poetry, reminding viewers that beauty is often found in surrendering to the moment.
The exhibition was accompanied by a documentary by VernissageTV and covered by major Italian and international art media.
“Cerchiami” (Italian for “Circle Me”) marked Lorena’s debut exhibition, presented in collaboration with designer Tommy Paone during the first Ortigia Design Festival.
The exhibition explored the circle as a universal symbol of unity, infinity, and connection, echoing the festival’s mission of linking design, art, and community. Opening with a concert by Pietro Roffi and a talk by Angelo Crespi (board member of ADI Design Museum), the exhibition positioned Lorena as a fresh voice in the dialogue between contemporary art and design.
Through her codified painting method, Lorena D’Ercole transforms this vision into powerful canvases painted on linen woven by her grandmother in the 1940s, as well as lived-in objects and family heirlooms. Each work becomes a link in a larger human chain, a bridge between past and future, intimacy and collectivity.
Rather than rejecting modernity, “Fil Rouge” embraces the possibility of reclaiming art, technology, and craftsmanship as instruments of reconnection. The exhibition is both a poetic manifesto and a call to action: to remember that we are not islands, but part of a single, powerful human network.
Solo Exhibition
ONORA explores the concept of invisible inheritance, not the kind passed down through objects, but the one held within matter itself.
Linen, domestic fabric, pigment, and the painter's gesture become vessels through which time continues to breathe into the present.
The work does not celebrate memory as nostalgia, but as a living force. Every element carries a responsibility: to remind us that human beings are not the owners of the world, but its guests.To honor, then, is to inhabit our bodies, our history, and the earth that makes every life possible with awareness and care.
"To honor is to recognize the value of what existed before us, lives through us, and will continue long after us."