Giorgia Volpe develops a multidisciplinary and contextual artistic practice that explores the tensions between the body, space, and environment. Through installations, objects, public interventions (ephemeral or permanent), performative videos, and photographs, she interrogates multiple narratives, memories in motion, and affective architectures. By assembling reclaimed materials—often drawn from everyday life or discarded objects—she creates an embodied, relational, and critical way of thinking.
Her works take the form of affective cartographies where experiences of displacement—physical, emotional, or symbolic—intersect. The artist invites us to venture beyond familiar landmarks, to experiment with crossing boundaries, and to embrace the unknown. This work becomes an anchor point for reflecting on how we inhabit and transform the world.
Her art offers a porous space where memories circulate, transform, and reveal the social, poetic, and territorial issues of revisited places. Each displacement opens the door to new possibilities and unexpected encounters.
For Volpe, space is a living organism traversed by flows, gestures, voices, and presences. Each place becomes a laboratory for observation, a realm of imagination, and a threshold between two states, conducive to redefining relationships with territory and others. Her approach is rooted in attentive listening to the sensitive territory, as wellas a focus on ordinary gestures, which carry meaning and have the power to open new perspectives on the transformation of our environment.
Brazilian-Canadian artist, Giorgia Volpe explores interconnectivity and transformation through a multidisciplinary practice encompassing public art, photography, performance, and object-making. With degrees from the University of São Paulo and LavalUniversity, she has exhibited worldwide, including at the Biennale de Lyon, MACSão Paulo, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. A recipient of the Videre Prize (2012) and Québec City career award (2023), Volpe’s work engages memory, space, and participatory experiences, redefining our relationship to the environment through poetic and critical interventions. Across Canada,Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, China, Thailand, France, Portugal, and beyond, her creations invite dialogue, exploration, and reappropriation of everyday materials, emphasizing the dynamic interplay between the individual and collective experience.
Giorgia's residency with NARS is made possible by Ville De Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.
