Giorgia Garzilli - La scimmia nel bicchiere
Inauguration: 26 February 2022, 12 pm - 8 pm
Duration: 1 March - 2 April 2022
Text: Piero Golia
Photos: Danilo Donzelli
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Vicoletto II Santa Maria ad Agnone n. 3, Napoli
Text: Piero Golia
La scimmia nel bicchiere.
While you have every right to wonder what a monkey is doing in a glass or how it got there in the first place, in this case you might accept that sometimes, things just happen (as for instance, me writing this text). The more you try to find a reason, the stranger the world becomes; appreciating this strangeness of the world, while still operating in that which you now consider reality, will be the foundation for shifting the current trajectory of your life from ordinary to extraordinary. Once you walk in the realm of extraordinary, you may finally find the reason you were looking for: the feeling of finding yourself in a bigger picture with a world of details which only exist in the imagination of the author. Here, reality and fiction wink at each other, in this realm where gravity and anti-gravity coexist and you find yourself running after Schrödinger's cat. Perhaps you feel your stomach reacting to emotions, only to realize that it’s just another detail in this universe made up of unlikely associations.
Once you come to accept the rules of this new world, the images become a narrative and the narrative become images – the threshold between what you see and you don’t vanishes and suddenly, you are within the inescapable beyond.
Piero Golia
GIORGIA GARZILLI
Napoli 1992
Education
2020 Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles
2016-2018 MA, Work.Master (Contemporary Artistic Practices), HEAD-Genève, Switzerland
Solo Exhibitions
2022 La scimmia nel bicchiere, Vin Vin, Naples (Upcoming)
2019 Silver was the swan — no blue, she said, in collaboration with Natacha De Oliveira, one gee in fog, Geneva
Group Exhibitions
2022 Contrappunto,Vin Vin, Vienna
2021 Open Systems, curated by Giulietta Basel, Museo Nitsch, Naples
2021 Fickle, sudden, total, curated by Rebecca Sharp, Liza Leopardi, Torre del Greco
2021 From Submersion to Subversion, curated by Giada Olivotto and Camilla Paolino, Palazzina, Basel
2021 Party del corpo, Sonnenstube, Lugano
2021 There is no time to enjoy the sun, curated by Federico Del Vecchio, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
2021 Retrofuturo, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, MACRO, Rome
2020 Donuts, curated by Giovanni Copelli, Reggio Emilia
2020 Un’introduzione (An introduction), viaraffineria, Catania
2020 In the spirit of being with, curated by Sonia D’Alto e Lisa Andreani, Cripta747, Turin
2019 Temporaneamente succulenta Parallelamente asciutta, (two-person show with Effe Minelli), Tarsia, Naples
2019 Open studios, Villa Romana, Florence
2019 She world, with Melissa Gordon and Effe Minelli, Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg
2019 Le Monde ou Rien, curated by SGOMENTO, Via Mezzocannone, Naples
2019 VOLCANOES, curated by Caribic Residency, LIFE SPORT, Athens
2018 L’élément contingent, curated by Una Szeemann and Bohdan Stehlik, LIYH, Geneva
2016 Comunità_Olivetti, curated by Donatella Bernardi, Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Other projects
2021 Tra i dorsi di cammello e i dadi commestibili, pareti d’uva, workshop led within the Department for Preventive Education, MACRO, Rome
2021 CLAMOR, in collaboration with Jacopo Belloni, Beatrice Favaretto, Diego Gualandris and Pietro Librizzi, Sala Santa Rita, Rome
2021 Ganbaro, performance with Diego Gualandris, Iniziative di II, Rome
2020 Boucherie, in collaboration with Diego Gualandris, Via Bertani, Rome
2020 KIOSK_Editions, curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio
2017 Nuit Blanche, curated by Charlotte Laubard, Paris, group project
Workshops | Residencies
2021 Palazzo Monti, residency, Brescia
2019 Italian Artist Fellowship, CASTRO, Rome
2018 ISR Summer Academy: Observation Practices and Methods, Istituto Svizzero, Rome
2018 Unpae, residency, Roccacaramanico
2018 AGAINST THE PERFORMATIVE, with Cally Spooner, Centre d’art contemporaine, Geneva
2017 thec lassroom: Piper. Learning at the discotheque, Artissima Fair, Turin
2017 Loges et Scènes de Transmutation, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, ECAL, Lausanne
2017 Moving up, Award – Mobility, G.A.I. Turin
2016 Vectors for looking, with Stuart Bailey and James Langdon, The Serving Library, Liverpool