Giulia Gallo

I was born in 1988 in Italy (Turin), where I live and work.

Each of my projects is a paradoxical attempt to decontextualize: I try to make myself neutral, with the aim of highlighting the impossibility of being objective with respect to the perceived. I extrapolate images from a precise context, cutting them out, memorizing them. I relocate them elsewhere and isolate them with the dual aim of eliminating meanings and opening new ones. What motions occur in our brain when we create something? Creative thinking is a way of using thought, a way that generates variations to the usual course of our reasoning. I am interested in investigating this variation. In order to relate to its environment, man has always created codes such as language, units of measurement, classification systems. These tools are essential for interacting with the surrounding reality and with other people. What happens when a code, a thought pattern, is subverted? There creative thought comes into action: a real movement of cells that generates new synapses, new paths in our brain. This process occurs not only in the act of creating a work of art, but in all situations where it is essential to find a way out, a plan b. Here, literally, if “we use the brain”,...

-2019/2020: Post-graduate course in Cultural Anthropology, Bicocca University, Milan (IT)
-2013 MFA - Painting, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin (IT)

2019
BAM on Tour", Fonderie Teatrali Limone, Moncalieri (TO), collective exhibition
curated by Edoardo Di Mauro

"SENTIERI A. C. G. T.", Amelia (TR)
Contemporary Art Festival - collective exhibition
curated by Claudio Pieroni

2018
"SENTIERI.", Amelia (TR)
Contemporary Art Festival - collective exhibition
curated by Claudio Pieroni

2017
58°International Prize Bugatti Segantini, Under 35 section,
Villa Vertua Nova Milanese (MB),
curated by Martina Corgnati

2016
La metemorfosi dell’Io, Ars Captiva, curated by Claudio Zoccola in
collaboration with Maria Teresa Roberto, Palazzo Barolo Turin

"Teatrum Botanicum"Emerging Talents, Festival and collective exhibition
PAV-Parco d'arte Vivente, www.parcoartevivente.it
Via Giordano Bruno 31, 10134 Torino
curated by Giulia Mengozzi

"Belvedere" , Galleria Opere Scelte, Torino, www.operescelte.com
solo show, with Enrico Partengo

2015
Web Performance "Mirroring, un'indagine sulla condivisione"
The Others Art Fair, Torino
in collaboration with Galleria Opere Scelte, www.operescelte.com

Public art project/prize Local Art 2015
Art.ur in collaboration with Photography Foundation Modena,
promoted by CRC
Exhibition in public space, Mondovì (CN)
curated by Ilar...