Pellegrini di luce (Pilgrims of Light) Artwork

Giulia Nelli was born in Legnano in 1992. She graduated at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and obtained a Master Degree in Exhibition Design at Politecnico of Milan (IDEA). In 2019 she attended the course of Contemporary Tapestry at the School of Applied Arts of Milan’s Castello Sforzesco. Her work analyses the relationship between people and their natural and social environment, convinced that it is necessary to re-build the ties that have become liquid due to the new media and that need to find a new sense in real life. The use of textile fabrics (mainly tights) allows her to enhance the role of gesture and manual skill bringing her in direct contact with matter. Tights’ fabric is dismembered, according to a technique of tearing and disassembling dear to contemporary art. The fabric is brought back to its basic element, the thread, which is then manipulated to build new balances and harmonies. Make and unmake, weave and re-weave is the story and the image of life. It is the ability that allows women in all myths of ancient populations to weave in a single weft emotions, words and silences, memories and hope for the future.