Grazia Gallo

installatie

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.

  • Portfolio
  • Activiteiten
  • Contact

    • La Grazieria hair dresser

    Project

    • 01-04-2022 t/m 16-07-2022
    • Locatie: Showroom M@MA, Rotterdam
    • Hair salons are those spaces that host verbal communications; most often these places become the reflectors for people seeking a new look/ identity.The hairdresser is one of these “social jobs” where people share their stories in a very casual way often not even being aware of exposing themself to a semi-stranger. La Grazieria reflects upon places of belonging related to migration and cultural heritage using the hair salon as a vassal for exchange information and create informal encounters

    La Graziaria Pasta workshop

    Workshop

    • 05-03-2023 t/m 05-03-2023
    • Locatie: An Other World, Rotterdam
    • La Grazieria is nomadic, can have multiple functions and has the purpose of bringing people together with the intention to create moments for sharing. For the workshop each participant was asked to bring a favorite ingredient. During the workshop some people worked together to make fresh pasta. Others based on the ingredients brought were asked to come up with new recipes for dressing the pasta. The workshop was an excuse to facilitate conversations between strangers.

    La Grazieria hairsalon/ reading room

    Workshop

    • 08-04-2023 t/m 07-04-2023
    • In samenwerking met: ReadingRoomRotterdam
    • Locatie: Poortgebow, Rotterdam
    • This session had hold an anti-capitalist approach to how domestic labor is essential in our lives as we all learn how to live together. Hosted in the Poortgebouw, the question of home is taken a step further. In a community built of many, resisting the injustices of the growing housing market, how can we actively find ways of being together for a community beyond the walls of the home?

    Avenida Encontrada

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-02-2020 t/m 29-02-2020
    • Locatie: Nave Agora', Buenos Aires
    • "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.