Lucia Fabio is an artist, independent curator and researcher whose interests include notions of domesticity, alternative spaces and histories, and the wonder of the everyday. She was part of the curatorial team that organized The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity at REDCAT. She worked on the first museum retrospective of Fluxus artist Alison Knowles which opened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2022, and is currently touring throughout Europe. She produced the public program, From Seed to Earth, for the City of Los Angeles’s public art exhibition CURRENT LA: FOOD (2019). Fabio ran an alternative exhibition space, The Homer Project, at her 1910 bungalow, where she invited artists to do site-specific installations for extended amounts of time. She has curated Crickets (2017), a solo exhibition of works by Aitor Lajarin at Heritage Square Museum, and co-curated FUCK! Loss, Desire, Pleasure (2016), at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries. Fabio’s recent writings include an essay and co-editing the exhibition catalogue by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960-2022) and contributing to the publication for Suzanne Lacy’s retrospective exhibition We Are Here (2019).

Returning to my family’s ancestorial land in Sicily this past summer has proved to be a pivotal moment in my thinking about my ceramic practice. I was very drawn (and humbled) by the ceramic vessels my family used to carry and drink water. I’ve been thinking of how my family’s survival revolved around these objects- to hold water and foodstuff. These vessels nurtured life, and I want to bring that to the vessels I create for the garden.