Laurina Paperina’s research combines painting, drawing, installation, and pop culture within an ironic and irreverent visual universe populated by superheroes, art-world icons, and contemporary cultural figures. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residency programmes and was shortlisted for the Cairo Prize in 2013 and the VAF Foundation Prize in 2014. In 2016, she created Wall of Fame for Pitti Uomo in collaboration with Rolling Stone Magazine and took part in the travelling exhibition My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action across the United States. In 2018, MART Rovereto dedicated its first monographic publication to her work. She lives and works between Rovereto and Duckland, a small village somewhere in the Universe.