As a psycholsogist, I came into contact with people who had experienced extreme situations
- sometimes as victims, sometimes as offenders.
With the help of psychology I tried to explain people's behavior and find an answer to existential questions.
The lack of communication that leads to prejudice and conflicts, has inspired my work as an artist.
By using satire I've found my way to deal with these existential problems in my work.
Due to my interest in human rights, I participated in several initiatives for Amnesty International
and
for the protection of water with works of art.
Since 2004 I use transparent materials, including recycled materials
(polyethylene, polyester and acetate film)
in installations, assemblages, images and videos.
Its transparency, airiness and special aesthetic quality
gave me the possibility to involve the third spacial
dimension in my art works.
"Transparency" as the main concept in my work features the human being with its wide variety
of existential aspects.
It may be considered as a metaphor for the globalization of our world in which the "individual" becomes
"transparent"
and vanishes into an anonymous mass and disppear compressed in a new invisible material
existence
in the channel of digital communication.
Under this concept of communication, the wire nets woven by me in my works
contain symbolically the network of human contacts too - networks that unifies and unites all men and women
worldwide and makes them dependent on each other in every aspect of life.
Giovanna
Valli
