The Embodied Vision of Simone Forti To encounter the work of Simone Forti is to witness a profound dialogue between the human form and the physical world. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1935, Forti’s life began amidst the shadows of historical upheaval; her family fled the rising tide of antisemitic persecution in Europe, eventually finding refuge in Los Angeles. This early experience of displacement and movement perhaps laid the subcons…