RESIDENT
Giorgia Volpe
BRASIL
Her artistic practice is nourished by gestures and objects from the domestic and everyday world.
Through her work, she studies the relationship between the body and its environment, exploring transitional spaces—particularly those between inside and outside, the individual and the collective, the intimate and the public, the real and the imaginary.
This practice leads her to polymorphic experiments (in situ projects, actions, installations, videos, photographs, and drawings) that emphasize the notion of process and construction through repetition, variation, and accumulation.
To create her works, she regularly uses traditional craft techniques such as braiding, embroidery, weaving, basketry, quilting, and cartography. These techniques allow her to explore different notions of labor and process, and to create varied, moving, and enveloping forms. Through the metaphor of textiles, she accumulates gestures in the present that carry memory.
Two parallel and complementary axes characterize her artistic research: one, social in nature, consists of site-specific and ephemeral interventions within diverse communities and focuses on collective memory; the other, more intimate, emphasizes sensory and affective memory through photographs and videos.
What interests her in a work of art is its ability to spread into a place where it appears and acts, transforming the way we experience and inhabit it.
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