A friend once told me that Camera Piena Camera Vuota (Full Room Empty Room) sounds like a jingle. For me, it resembled a moment filled with many doubts. United by a sense of resistance and resilience, memory and erasure, these works navigate the space guided by (the idea of) traces or impressions as fossils, that are capable of telling stories and preserving memories whilst also revealing feelings like fear or anguish.

They try to foster a dialogue between the personal and the political, the tangible and the intangible, prompting questions about how today's reality is perceived and consumed, and what remains in its aftermath. Much like threads in a spider's web, each single piece responds to one another. However, this 'response' does not necessarily imply interconnectedness. Instead, it resembles a dialogue, where individual voices follow their own path, yet they do contribute to a broader narrative.

Giorgia Lo Faso (b.1993, Italy) is a visual artist. 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. She is currently living between The Hague and Utrecht. 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. This project is supported by Mondriaan Fonds and Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds.