Giorgia Lo Faso

Lives and works in Maastricht, Netherlands

Artist statement

Starting from the question “Can I carry a studio in a backpack?”, and using painting as method, I explore the relation between the reproduction of digital images (reproduced to the exact same size as the digital screen of the original), the representation of the self (depicted in the images), the medium and the physical space I inhabit. Based on the multiple temporalities inherent in a multistage process of (de)materialization, I searched for a way to formulate time as a container of images, seeing painting as a means to continuously translate digital memories into a new, physical space. Giorgia Lo Faso (b. 1993, Italy) is an artist who is interested in the visual possibilities that mediums and languages can generate, especially in the discourse of painting. In her work, Lo Faso studies the ambiguous relationship between the time of the self and the time of the physical world. Her use of medium includes monochrome etchings, large-scale woodcuts, macro-oil and watercolor paintings; often incorporating photographic and video documentation, and adopting conservation techniques. Lo Faso holds a BA and an MA in Graphic and Chalcographic Techniques from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Italy (2017 and 2019, resp., and obtained her MA Fine Arts at the HKU, University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands (2022). She is currently based in Utrecht, (NL).

Artwork

• Figurine Piccole Figure, 2022. Series of 100 watercolors painted onto the walls of the artist’s room; torn off, and mounted onto linen canvases, approx. 1.5x1cm each.
• Piccole Figure, 2020. Series of 100 watercolors painted onto the walls of the artist’s room; torn off, and mounted onto linen canvases, approx. 1.5x1cm each.
• Can I carry a studio in a backpack? _Figurine Piccole Figure_, 2021. Detachment of my room's walls
• The corner _Figurine Piccole Figure_, 2022. Detachment of my room's walls, watercolors painted onto the walls of the artist room, torn off, and mounted onto linen canvases.
• Figurine, 2019. Series of 42 watercolors painted onto the walls of the artist’s room; torn off, and mounted onto linen canvases
• Hey there! I’m using WhatsApp!, 2018. Woodcut on rice paper rolls
• Samsung Galaxy S4, 2017. Etching on Hahnemühle paper