I like things that refuse to be just one thing.

‍ ‍GIORGIA VALLI, Visual artist · Photography, drawing, sculpture & installation

I photograph cages to talk about freedom, try to photograph the universe without a camera, draw constellations between things that have never met, and take canvases into the wilderness to let the landscape have a say.

I collect evidence that the world is much stranger than it looks.

I'm interested in what happens when we stop telling things what they are supposed to be. When we put aside familiar names, definitions and expectations, even the most ordinary things can become mysterious again.

A photograph might become a drawing. A piece of bark might become a constellation. An empty room might turn out to be anything but empty.

I travel from place to place, following unlikely connections between landscapes, memories, objects and people. I get to know a place by listening, returning, and letting it change my habits.

This is how a place begins to feel like home.

Making art is part of that relationship: what I make grows out of the time we spend together, and the care that develops along the way.

Perhaps that is what I hope my work can offer: a little curiosity about what surrounds us, a sense of being part of it, and a reason to care.

Before the vast territory of the Pacific Ocean, which some call

"the End of the World",

stretches a land that has grown within me for nine months.

Black and white photo of smooth rocks and sand with shadows and textures.

Black and white photo of abstract sand patterns

From the volcanic lands of the North to the primeval rainforests of the West Coast,

Black and white photo of a smoky volcanic mountain landscape with grass in the foreground.

Black and white image of a tall tree, possibly a redwood, with fern leaves in the foreground, sunlight filtering through the canopy.

from the icy peaks of the South to the shores of pristine lakes and blue lagoons, rest the daughters of pure springs.

passing through subterranean starry caves andreturning to the light in the mystical waters of the east.

Large rock formation resembling a human head, surrounded by smaller rocks and sparse vegetation, under a cloudy sky.

Her indigenous name is Aotearoa.

Grounding in Stone
max 5 cm / unique pieces

Bird perched on a leafless tree branch against a painted green landscape backdrop.

Blue parrot perched on a bare tree branch against a green background with foliage at the bottom.

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captures bird cages in the Bronx Zoo, reflecting places I've lived—sometimes nests, sometimes prisons

Each photo ties to a home, with titles drawn from its vowels, symbolizing memories.

It explores freedom, captivity, and the emotional resonance of space and silence.

Kookaburra perched on a branch amid leafy tree branches, against a painted background of a landscape.

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Roseate spoonbills perched on tree branches in a forest setting with dense foliage and trees in the background.

In Universo, the visible and invisible intertwine in a dance of primordial elements—earth, water, light, song—that find poetic geography within photographic surfaces,

colored threads, and the transparencies of glass. A sense of wonder emerges, as though one could touch the heartbeat of the cosmos hidden within the dust of a childhood garden and the glow of a yet-to-be-named constellation.

It is a circular journey that begins in the shadow of what once was and ascends toward the stars,

stitching together traces of the past and generating new horizons of meaning. A pursuit of returning both matter—and ourselves—to the form of an intimate and universal song.