Francesco Strabone

Francesco Strabone is a contemporary artist living and working in Lecce. His research explores the relationship between memory, identity and spirituality, with a particular focus on resilience and on what endures over time. Through an investigation of traces, transformations and material processes, his work translates fragile yet persistent forms of life into poetic and meditative visual languages, oscillating between abstraction and corporeality.

Within the Creative Living Lab HABITAT, Strabone was the lead artist, guiding the artistic research and production process. His practice shaped the conceptual framework of the lab, interpreting Pallone di Gravina not as a product but as a living organism. Through photographic exploration of surfaces, textures and mould formations, he transformed microscopic processes of ageing into visual landscapes, connecting artisanal knowledge, territory and collective memory within a shared artistic and cultural narrative.