Vuoto di mani congiunte (Empty of clasped hands)

In the ceaseless involvement of bodies, hands take centre stage, sustaining the evocation of mystery in a continuous search for evolution. 

Large hands that accompany the bodies and care for them; hands projected toward change, toward reinventing themselves in the awareness that transformation will endure — until time runs out… and in the silence of an erotic tension within emptiness… thoughts take shape.

Lara Steffe

Born in Milan, where she still lives and works. In 1990 she graduated in sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, studying under Cavaliere, Cascella and Lidia Silvestri. 

To learn marble carving techniques, she moved for a period to Pietrasanta. She began exhibiting in 1989, soon establishing herself in Italy through both group and solo exhibitions. 

She currently collaborates with the “Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano” in replacing original marble works with marble replicas. She also teaches sculpture to inmates at the Opera prison (Milan).