BIG RABBIT (ORIGAMI) | CHIARA LECCA

The relationship between humans and nature is at the core of Chiara Lecca’s artistic research (Modigliana, 1977), which primarily takes shape through sculptures and installations.
Origami, the title of an extensive series of works, evokes a world of childhood, magic, and wonder—wonder that emerges from a meticulous and attentive process of material transformation, resulting in new and unexpected forms.
Chiara Lecca’s sculpture appears clear and legible to us: the figure of a small furry animal, unmistakably recognizable as a rabbit with long ears—Big Rabbit, in fact—crafted with such precise realism that it becomes unsettling.
To create the Origami series, Lecca used leftover and discarded materials such as second-hand coats, blankets, or rugs—remnants of a consumerist society. Her Big Rabbit is thus natural in substance but entirely artificial in form, creating a perceptual paradox that disorients and challenges our certainties.
Uncertainties and fragilities take shape in these sculptures, which appear solid due to the quality of the materials—real and tangible—making them, in turn, accessible and readable.
What takes the stage in Origami is a form of nature stripped of symbolism—no longer positioned in contrast to artifice, but understood as an organic condition shared by humans, animals, and plants. It is an organic component that makes us part of an evolutionary process we often overlook—or even try to forget.

Chiara Lecca
Big Rabbit
2016
Lapin fur blanket, metal
cm 90 x 80 x 50
Courtesy Chiara Lecca and Galleria Fumagalli. Milano
Photo Olimpia Lalli

16/04/25