Giovanna Petrocchi is
an italian photographer based between London and Rome. She graduated from the
London College of Communication with a BA in Photography in 2015 and she
completed her MA in Visual Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, London. In 2017
she won the Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award and in 2019 she was selected as
a winner of The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent award and mentoring
programme. She has been recently nominated by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la
Fotografia to be part of the FUTURES photography talents (2020).
Her work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions such as
Murate Art District, Florence (2025) - Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden (2024)
- Galleria Eugenia Delfini, Rome (2024) – CAMERA Torino, Turin (2023) - UNSEEN
photo fair, Amsterdam (2021) - Paris Photo fair (2021) -Flatland Gallery,
Amsterdam (2022) – Borough Road Gallery, London ( 2020) – Athens Photo Festival
(2020).
By combining personal photographs with found imagery and hand-made collages with 3d
printing processes, Giovanna creates imaginary landscapes inspired by surrealist paintings
virtual realities and ancient cultures. Influenced by museum displays and catalogues,
she populates these landscapes with her own collection of surreal artefacts. 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 Giovanna’s practice 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.
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