“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 my interest in creating spaces from elements that, in many ways, are destined to become ruins, as well as my approach to engaging with this process. It forms part of a larger body of work I have 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 I encountered.

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

Using mediums such as drawing, UV pigments, text, audio, and various restoration techniques, I 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.