By acknowledging her roots as a Southern Italian woman and appreciating its traditions, Grazia is finding the strength to speak out loud about the struggles she daily encounters to achieve personal and economic stability while living far away from home, therefore her urge to construct intimate and familiar environments. A world which is created halfway between the surreal and the real, primarily using found materials with the desire to form alternative spaces from where to operate and forge connections with her close surroundings. Her work wants to make a home for personal memories while creating a space where to form new shared ones.
La Grazieria hair salon - Installaiton 2022
Hair salons are those spaces that host verbal communications; most often these places become the reflectors for people seeking a new look- a new identity.
The hairdresser moreover is one of these “social jobs” like the bartender, taxi driver and so forth where people share their stories in a very casual way often not even being aware of exposing themself to a semi-stranger. La Grazieria is an installation that reflects upon places of belonging related to migration and cultural heritage.
Flesh&Blood, Violet rib-bon. The day after the storm - Installation 2022.Blue pipes, pieces of golden clay, fabrics, foam and blankets form meanings to reflect upon the meaning of home. Home as a space of negotiation between the multiple subjects who inhabit it, therefore called to find new constant equilibriums in existing as individuals and coexist as a collective. Home as a space to reflect on memories, home as facilitator to create new infinite conversations.
Intermezzo - Installtion 2021.To create spaces within the present exhibition space, via fragmented structures made by the assemblage pre-existing metal pipes, transparent plastic tubes,latex, concrete and tape. Intermezzo focuses on the idea of the joints as a tool to connect things together. The structure here become the subject matter which intertwine and find space creating a new system of infrastructure within the existing one.
@ Dyad - Installation, 2021
From the saying that dirty clothes must to be washed inside the house. A glimpse of a family gathering made from domestic objects that can't wait to meet the gaze of a distracted passerby. This work wants to break down the old convention about domestic spaces as those that need to remain private. Instead it wants to open up its “windows” to the world and enter into conversation with its public.
(De)constracted Memories - Installation, 2021
(De) Constracted mermories is Investigating ways of working with different materials to physically translate memories which often become blured by the passing of time.
Here seven sculptures are used as a portals to reflect on places of belonging and nostalgic memories more precisely the ones coming from
childhood.
Broken Promises - Installation, 2021
How does it feel to be a woman in today's society? To stay silent and follow the fake stereotypes proposed by the media, which determines the beauty standards in its most superficial meaning, seems to be the only way to success! Conceived as empty, but yet beautiful statues, this work emphasizes the image of the woman from a chauvinistic mentality, because I am afraid, is still the one that governs the most of minds today.
Avenida Encontrada - Installation, 2020
"This insight is not meant to make us feel melancholic or nostalgic, but rather calls for attention to fulfill these broken promises". SLAVOY ZIZEK (2008). Wondering around the city, encountering discarded objects and talking with the people of the neighborhood, Avenida Encontrada is the result of a month residency in Bueons Aires. 2020
Xeno Naturamorta - Installation,2021
Every Era is made by the inanimate objects it has produced. In museums, an entire civilization is portrayed in anthropological means by the careful recognition and categorization of tools, furniture and any other surviving materials recived from the subject matter. Making use of the traditional composition strategies used in still life painting, I reframe the way we look at the function of objects that characterize our era; a link betterrn the past and the present to serve the future.
‘Un’Functional green - Installation,2018
'Un'functional Green is about decontextualizing the industrial, mass-produced, disposable products that permeate our society today. The recurring color neon green is used to emphasize the origin of the objects production, their artificiality, their industrial provenance. Consisting of objects that share a similar formal language, and positioned so that they are in dialogue with one another and with the viewer as she/he moves about the installation, each sculpture is a tacit claim for their own identity, a justification for their existence .
