Biography
Giulia Berra (Cremona, Italy, 1985). She exposes in group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, developing projects deeply connected with architecture and historic contest. She has been selected for JCE Biennale 2015-2017, that involves 7 European Countries and in 2016 she realized two site specific installations for Museu Municipal Amadeo De Souza-Cardoso during her artist residence in Amarante (Portugal).
Contemporary Art loves great dimensions, interaction, display, grandeur. Giulia Berra saves for herself another glance. Empathic, close, tactile. Insect wings, feathers, galls, chrysalises: little fragile things, to be observed with respect, without touching. Her artistic research deals mainly with residual elements, found abandoned on the ground and patiently collected over several months. The development of her works is determined by her capability of reading various territories, by chance and by the natural availability of materials. Therefore there are no resources, waste and refuse, with clear reference to the social, economical and environmental sphere. The poetry of these little things lies in their specificity and dignity, connected to humanistic narrations and a horizontal and not hierarchical glance. The elements appear in their essence, like delicate drawings in space. It's a familiar but not intimate dimension, like if we returned to the dawn of Natural Sciences asking ourselves questions in a different way. Giulia has a particular focus on spoils and molting as metaphor of psychophysical change and on flying as alternative and utopian dimension. According to her, Nature is the starting point to make visions and metaphors about the contemporary period. Her artistic research investigates empty spaces, mutations, fluctuations, trying to understand their borders. She studies processes, biological cycles and their interactions, their limits.
