Giovanna Petrocchi
Giovanna Petrocchi
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Seated Goddesses from Caves and Myths, 2017
Giclée print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper
25 x 40 cm
Edition of 10 + 2AP
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About this Work
Giovanna Petrocchi’s practice investigates the visual connections between different eras: both the present, which is steeped in virtual innovation and the uncanny; and the past which can be seen as obscure and mysterious. Petrocchi creates collages using found images, her own photographs and archival museum imagery to build multi-dimensional works. This technique evokes an imaginary realm, representing displaced artefacts in bright, contemporary spaces - confusing our sense of past and present.
About Giovanna Petrocchi
Petroocchi received her MA from Camberwell College of Art in 2019 and her BA from the London College of Communication. Petrocchi was recently included in the 2020 Athens Photo Festival at the Benaki Museum, Athens. She was nominated by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia to be part of 2020 Futures photography platform. She was selected for the TGP New Talent exhibi- tion at the Photographer’s Gallery 2019. In 2017 she won the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, and in 2016, she was the recipient of the Flash Forward 2016 award from the Magenta Foundation, UK.
Education
2017- 2019 MA Visual Arts Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London, UK
2012- 2015 BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK
2012 Professional Photography and Academic Portfolio, Central Saint Martins
Awards and Residencies
2019
TPG New Talent, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
In-Ruins Residency, Parco Scolacium, Borgia, Italy
2017
LensCulture Emerging Talent Award- Winner (Jurors' Pick)
2016
Flash Forward winner, Magenta Foundation, UK
2015
Flowers Gallery Mentorship Award
2014
Ritratto a Mano, Ex Convento delle Clarisse, Caramanico Terme (PE), Italy
Exhibitions
2019
TPG New Talent, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Degree show, MA Visual Arts, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2018
Photoworks present 'Collaborate', Truman Brewery, London
LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, Klompching Gallery, New York
URL/IRL Love, Muddy Yard, London
2016
Zone of Proximity (solo show), MMX Gallery, London, UK
Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward 2016, Division Gallery, Toronto
Self-published book "Touched", part of Paper | Publication | Performance, Lychee One Gallery, London
The Other Art Fair, 7-10 April, Victoria House, London
2015
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Psyche Valuations, White Conduit Projects, London
BA (Hons) Photography Graduate Show, London College of Communication, London
2014
Ritratto a Mano, Ex Convento delle Clarisse, Caramanico Terme (PE), Italy
Touched, Book Launch, The Draft House Battersea, London
A Fragment of Time in its Pure State, The Nursery Gallery, London
2013
The Poetics of Space, London College of Communication
UNBOUND, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
BOUND, Book Launch, The Blacksmith and The Toffee Maker, London