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My name is Silvia Bellu aka Lum, I’m an Italian body and visual artist. I was born in Cagliari (Sardinia) in 1984 but I live in Milan since 2005. I work together with visual artists and live music players during interactive theatre performances and artistic installations. I started to be fascinated by the Body Art world in 2011, when I saw a live performance of drawing on a body at the Think Tank Festival (International Awards & Festival) at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan. Since many years I was interested in a kind of dynamic body research but linked to the movement, to the theatrical gesture. In fact, I worked at the same time as a director an choreographer. Then I focused on the figurative work on the body. I don't know exactly the reason why I came to this... It probably was the need to "explore" the body and all his ways of expression, of acting, and so the visual and performative aspect. I think it's the study of the body as art, his mystery under a theatrical point of view. The act of painting a face or a body has the same meaning of telling a story, writing a script and imagine a life. This is the reason why I'm considered a multifarious artisan, devising my characters from an aluminum roll, a handful of straws and some color. I tell about bodies becoming "something else or someone else" just like theater.