The exhibition Fonds de tiroirs and Other Landscapes presents various combinations of materials centered around the concept of reserve, interpreted in diverse terms such as provision, deposit, availability, potential, discretion, modesty, expectation or hope.
Each collection classifies and organizes an archive of the imaginary made up of mixed objects, as defined by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who referred to drawers as “object-subjects”. The artworks, infused with the confidences they hold, transform into images or memories, revealing landscapes of emotional lives. There’s a joy in bringing forth these intimate daydreams from a remarkable reserve of revealed materials and envisioned landscapes.
Giorgia explores the interplay of scale, not only in her sculptures and installations, but also in her textile works. Other landscapes is the result of collages made from performances in nature. In her compositions, the artist stages her deliberately oversized body moving within natural settings, giving her works an impression of monumentality. In this way, she captures her intimate relationship with the land.
Giorgia Volpe’s practice expresses itself in a range of polymorphous experiments that extend from drawing to installation, photography to video, gesture to social or intimate interventions and actions. The artist is interested in the realities and boundaries of the body, as well as its relationship with the environment and places of passage, from the interior to the exterior, from the individual to the collective, from the intimate to the public, from the real to the imaginary, from nature to culture.
