About — Giorgia Valli

In Giorgia Valli’s photographs (Italy, 1985) the dimension of the immanent, the everyday, the intimate merges with that of the imponderable, the eternal, the dream. Opposite worlds, but on which human nature is equally nourished, that mix, dialogue, annihilate and at the same time feed each other, in a fluid oscillation between the particular and the universal, giving life to a perfect unity, that leads to the place of intuition.
A silent and gentle observer, “Valli is photographing a world that is both there and not there”, opening up the dimension of the possible. And so grains of sand generate entire universes, tropical birds photographed in the cages of a zoo are simulacra of life in moors that seem sculpted in eternity, the moulds on the walls of an abandoned asylum become frescoes that scream the stories of unheard lives.

Valli interprets reality by generating lyrical visions that belong to a dimension suspended in time and space. The world she gives us back is stripped of outer noise: what is other, outside of us migrates towards the deep space of the intimate, of emotion, of meditation.

In her practice, Giorgia Valli combines photography and experimentation: the use of both digital techniques and the combination of different materials dilates the instantaneous gestuality of the shot in time. The image is transformed, charged with new signs and new meanings.

( Thanks for the writing to A.A. )

Galleries

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco

Collections

HBC Hudson’s Bay Company Global Art Collection, NYC

LACMA Museum Collection, Los Angeles

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dan & Mary Solomon Collection

Exhibitions

2021 EUQINOM GALLERY San Francisco,USA – Calm, a group exhibition