GIUSY PIRROTTA
Giusy Pirrotta (Reggio Calabria - Italy, 1982; lives and works in Milan). Her work includes the use of films, video, photos, ceramic, printing on fabric and wallpaper. She works on site-specific installations and immersive sculptures, mostly in ceramic. Her work explores the limit between visual art, craft and design. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, then she got the MFA at Central Saint Martin College of Arts and Design in London, where she had possibility to use film as a tool to analyse the materiality of moving images. She has also been a researcher at the UCA University for Creative Art / University of Brighton with the PhD thesis “Moving Image and the Space around the Frame: Time-based Installations and Forms of Experience”. Recent group exhibitions include: “Aliena Comune”, Galleria Macca, Cagliari; “Tree Time” curated by Andrea Lerda, Muse Science Museum, Trento and Mountain Museum, Turin; Mummy Complex, curated by Matteo Pollini, Palazzo Monti, Brescia. Personal exhibitions include: “Taixunia”, Dimora Antica, Milan; “Between the Glimpse and the Gaze” curated by Richard Hylton, James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham, UK. She was awarded the prize “Le stanze di Ferenc: Carta da parati e nuova progettualità” at Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Rome. She was selected for the Cairo Award, Palazzo Reale Milan, 2014. And the recipient of the Combat Prize, video category, in 2013, and the Red Mansion Art Prize, promoted by Red Mansion Art Foundation, and a resident in Beijing with the Central Saint Martin College, in 2012.
