And perhaps that is Giulia M.'s true medium: not metal, not sound, not memory. Just attention. Radical, patient, unsentimental attention. In a world that screams for your focus, she offers a whisper. And if you lean in close enough—you will finally hear what you've been missing.
Critic Elena Vascotto wrote: "You do not watch Giulia M.'s work. You are absorbed by it. She has turned the gallery into a nervous system, and you are a synapse." giulia m
"I don't want to illustrate emotion," she says. "I want to circuit it. The viewer completes the work with their own history." And perhaps that is Giulia M
She has a point. Her newer works, including a 2024 piece called Joy as a Contact Force , is built from carnival ride scrap and children's playground bells. It emits erratic, laughing tones. Visitors have reported dancing. Off the record, Giulia M. is not the ascetic her public persona suggests. She cooks elaborate pasta meals for friends. She has a collection of ugly ceramic frogs. She cries during The Muppet Christmas Carol . She is also, quietly, a fierce advocate for arts education in Italian public schools, having anonymously funded six after-school sculpture labs in the past three years. In a world that screams for your focus, she offers a whisper