Giorgia Lo Faso at Billytown, The Hague

“A friend once told me that ‘Camera Piena Camera Vuota’ sounds like a jingle.
To me it resembled a moment filled with many doubts.

This body of work is connected by (the ideas of) traces or impressions as fossils, that are capable of telling stories and preserving memories whilst also revealing feelings like fear or anguish.

The exhibition title ‘Camera Piena Camera Vuota’ (Full Room Empty Room) reflects Giorgias interest in creating spaces from elements that, in many ways, are destined to become ruins, as well as her approach to engaging with this process. It forms part of a larger body of work she has been developing since moving to the Netherlands at the end of 2020, driven by a desire to transform the temporary into something permanent—a counter-narrative to the constantly shifting urban landscape she encountered.

During her residency at Billytown she began to intertwine different aspects of her work into narratives that she has come to define as possible scenarios. A former studio building undergoing renovation gave her time there a sense of urgency, a feeling of finiteness. Wall surfaces became like sculptural bodies, and she found herself acting as their collector; preserving by detaching these architectural features. This process led her to think about the materials she was tearing apart—imagining what they could had endured—and reflecting on her own actions as well. It became a form of collaboration where materials and the space feel more intimate”.

Using mediums such as drawing, UV pigments, text, audio, and various restoration techniques, she explored the concept of fragmented spaces as bodies, as the realities of contemporary displacement, forced evictions, and the denial of existence or identity. Like a glitch, remnants of architectures—brings memories of spaces to mind, while phosphorescent yet invisible, news-sourced drawings briefly shine before fading away, inviting the viewer to look closer, yet to shift, adapt, and reconsider their perspective and position”.

Giorgia Lo Faso is an Italian visual artist currently based in The Hague. She 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 in 2022. The exhibition ‘Camera Piena Camera Vuota’ is the result of her residency at Billytown, which took place from March to June 2024 and at Duplex in Lisbon in July 2024.