About The Artist
Pascale Giorgi is a multi disciplinary Australian artist, currently living in between Italy and Perth, Australia. Drawing on her own cultural identity as an Italo-Australian, totems and concepts of classical culture are subverted through humour and the absurd to make way for mash-ups, hybrids and (lost-in-)translations.
After graduating from Curtin University in 2015, she has exhibited her work in HATCHED: National Graduate Exhibition (2016), PICA (AUS) and Polit(t)ico (2017), Museo Archaeologico Bologna (ITA). In 2019, Giorgi presented two exhibitions, It’s okay baby you’ll be reborn at Cool Change Gallery, Perth and AGRIFUTURA, in collaboration with Benedetta Mori at Spazio Lum in Lucca, Italy. Giorgi recently exhibited Il Venere Trasforma, developed with Italian sound artist Simone Grande at RONZII Fuco Contemporary in Pisa, Italy.
Davide Barbafiera is a sound designer, producer and filmmaker based in Pisa, Italy. He is a genre-bending musician playing in bands; Campos, Ico e I Casi Umani and Divulgazione.
About The Work
I, Vulgaris
Pascale Giorgi, 2019.
Music by Davide Barbafiera
Video, 5mins 8sec
The pedestals of iconic Renaissance sculptures historically reserved for inscriptions honouring popes, financiers and kings are instead the set for scatological jokes, accompanied by a looping electronica translation of the famous tenor aria Vesti La Giubba (English- ‘put on your costume’) from Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera Pagliacci.
About The Artist
Pascale Giorgi is a multi disciplinary Australian artist, currently living in between Italy and Perth, Australia. Drawing on her own cultural identity as an Italo-Australian, totems and concepts of classical culture are subverted through humour and the absurd to make way for mash-ups, hybrids and (lost-in-)translations.
After graduating from Curtin University in 2015, she has exhibited her work in HATCHED: National Graduate Exhibition (2016), PICA (AUS) and Polit(t)ico (2017), Museo Archaeologico Bologna (ITA). In 2019, Giorgi presented two exhibitions, It’s okay baby you’ll be reborn at Cool Change Gallery, Perth and AGRIFUTURA, in collaboration with Benedetta Mori at Spazio Lum in Lucca, Italy. Giorgi recently exhibited Il Venere Trasforma, developed with Italian sound artist Simone Grande at RONZII Fuco Contemporary in Pisa, Italy.
Davide Barbafiera is a sound designer, producer and filmmaker based in Pisa, Italy. He is a genre-bending musician playing in bands; Campos, Ico e I Casi Umani and Divulgazione.
About The Work
I, Vulgaris
Pascale Giorgi, 2019.
Music by Davide Barbafiera
Video, 5mins 8sec
The pedestals of iconic Renaissance sculptures historically reserved for inscriptions honouring popes, financiers and kings are instead the set for scatological jokes, accompanied by a looping electronica translation of the famous tenor aria Vesti La Giubba (English- ‘put on your costume’) from Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera Pagliacci.
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