Vega Flux, pseudonym of Chiara Panunzio, was born in 1997 in San Giovanni Rotondo (Fg). After completing her university studies in Classical Literature at the University of Foggia, she moved to Naples– where she currently lives and works – to attend the Academy of Fine Arts.
Her research explores how time is deposited on images through stratification, change and error. Through engraving and painting, she establishes a concrete dialogue with the surface, which reacts and guides the process. Fairy tales are a key theme in her art, as they allow her to recount trauma in a symbolic way, without simplifying it. Water and memory become key elements in visualising the passage of time. Her works are spaces where personal experience and scientific approach meet.
She has participated in several group exhibitions, including the Caputo Prize at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and, on October 2023, she brought together other emerging artists and founded Family Jewels, a project created to work in the vivid reality of “common goods” in Naples, in particular that of the Giardino Liberato di Materdei, and to network with other young artists. In June 2024, she won the Sette Opere per la Misericordia competition organised by the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples.