TRACTION PROJECT SPACE

Tide: Experiments brings together three works in progress which form part of an ongoing overarching project exploring the volume and variety of materials and ‘stuff’ that has insinuated itself into the artist’s life, like a tide.

Working with reused materials and recycling started as a means to dial down Giuliano’s need for perfectionism and making ‘pretty work’. In time this has matured into a real love of detritus – whether it be food packaging or a memory – and its ability to be moulded into new graphics, textures, objects and stories. While this ‘giving of attention to the ordinary’ speaks of the endless synthetic material that we create, transact and discard, it has also become a daily acknowledgement of Giuliano’s life, a kind of autobiographical storytelling.

Francesca Giuliano is an Italian-British interdisciplinary artist based in Devon, UK. She creates material and immaterial installations using ingredients such as household recycling, personal possessions, drawing, sound, moving image, the spoken and written word, memories, and data to explore the growing tide of ‘stuff’ and nostalgia that has come to clutter her life. She works in series, paradoxically creating new tides of her own, reforming them into stories and autobiographies.