Giulia Federici
Giulia Federici
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A Melody, 2019 (detail)
Nylon thread and plaster casts
Variable dimensions (approx. 250 cm)
About this Work
A Melody, presented here, is composed of three sets of wall-based plaster casts of fingers, and segments of nylon thread running between them. The casts are arranged at a distance from one another to help create a feeling of lightness in the installation. Suggesting a movement, a light touch and almost a sound, the installation invites the viewer to develop a mental connection with the piece, using their imagination to fill in the gaps of what might be happening in that frozen motion.
About Giulia Federici
Giulia Federici is an Italian artist currently based in London. She gained her BA in Painting, Drawing and Performative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, before completing an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Working predominantly with sculpture, the artist interrogates the limitations of human interaction in conveying experience. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Musei Capitolini, Rome, and Saatchi Gallery, London.
Through her practice, Federici considers subjective perceptions of reality, how these are effectively communicated, and how this process affects human interaction. Central to her work is the question: how can we know what someone else is experiencing? This question is based on the knowledge that reality is constructed from pre-encoded information. It’s meaning is necessarily subjective and the information we extrapolate from it is largely arbitrary. It is therefore difficult to communicate. Through her sculptures, the artist underlines the place of symbols and analogies as useful tools in the transfer of feeling and emotion.
Education
2020 MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London
2014/15 One year of study within the ERASMUS+ program at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste HfBK, Dresden, DE
2016 BA (Hons) - Visual and Performing Arts, Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, IT
Exhibitions
2017
PERCEPTIONS Rösslstube, Dresden. Curated by Oliver Löwe, in association with Karambolage Dresden.
2020
London grads now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2019
Big space, The street, Central Saint Martins London
2017
Allegorical Ghosts, Carmel by the Green, London
2015
E; endgame, Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse, Hfbk Dresden
There, Senatssaal, Hfbk Dresden
2013
Self-portraits, Spazio23, Rome
Corrispondenze d'Arte, Teatro dell ́orologio in Rome
Natural Born Artist, Marino Laziale, Rome
Notte bianca, Museo Civico di Norma, Latina
Sotto sotto, Villa Bernabei in Velletri, Rome
L'età dell'Equilibrio, Musei Capitolini, Rome
Oltre il buio, Casa della Memoria e della Storia, Rome
Publications
2020
Publication on the website wave-collective.com (www.wave-collective.com/features#/giulia-federici/)
2018
Opening text of the catalogue "Auto ruggine-Insoliti paesaggi" Giuseppe Bartolini. Published by Scuola
2017
Permanente dell'Abitare. Printed on September
Interview on the German radio station Coloradio. 14th May 2017.
Note published on the calendar 2017 of the visual artist Giuseppe Bartolini - Perisco in partnership with Galleria Ceribelli Bergamo