LOCATION: Rådhuset, Landskrona. MAP.
Giovanna Petrocchi creates imaginary landscapes inspired by surrealist paintings, virtual realities and ancient cultures, by combining personal photographs with found imagery and hand-made collages with 3D printing processes. Influenced by museum displays and catalogues, she populates these landscapes with her own collection of surreal artefacts. As Giangavino Pazzola wrote in 2022: Petrocchi draws on the high cultures of anthropology, archaeology and Western museums’ history, to elaborate stories, unedited archaic imageries without time, that stress the value and meaning of our relationship with the idea of collective knowledge.
The received view of historical narrative is deliberately distorted. Objects become unrecognisable and meanings fragment; presented as floating entities they belong to neither specific time or museum. A recurrent feature in Petrocchi’s work is the juxtaposition of futuristic and primordial scenarios and the combination of historical and fictional elements. Under her guidance, cultures and traces of civilizations present themselves in constant flux, subject to transformative processes of migration and exchange. The exhibition includes images from three series of work – Modular Artefacts, Zoomorphic vessels and Shifting Stories.
Giovanna Petrocchi is an Italian photographer based in London and Rome. She completed a BA in photography at the London College of Communication and a MA in Visual Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, London. In 2019 she was selected as a winner of The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent award.
This exhibition is supported by Instituto Italiano di Cultura Stoccolma.
© Giovanna Petrocchi
