‘Oh sir, you know well that life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true’.
Luigi Pirandello
Born in Naples, Italy 1977.
Lives and works in London.
Studied at Goldsmiths College, London MA Textiles 2005-06
London College of Communication, London BA Surface Design 2002-05
Gaya Giacometti is a contemporary artist working across disciplines.
Her latest work features a series of performances that alter everyday scenarios. Inserting fictional fragments to specific contexts, these pieces propose playful transformations that expose the intrinsic surreal nature of reality.
Although such interventions are manifested in a humorous and mischievous manner, there are very serious concerns at the heart of the work. Structures intended as systems are seen as representations generated by the need to ‘order’ and understand experience.
The
analysis of the relationship between these structures and life, together with the study of structure and its use and function, deal with the paradox of a form that, in its fixity, is incapable to keep up with the flux of life from which it is generated. These issues are considered through an artistic and spiritual perspective. The artist, like each individual mastering life, creates a form that surpasses itself.
Influences
F. Nietzsche, Post Structuralism, J. Derrida and Deconstruction, R. Barthes, Chan Buddhism and Chinese Martial Arts, Taoism, Metafiction, Punk Rock
Samuel Beckett, J.L. Borges, J.G. Ballard, Robbe Grillet, David Lynch, John Cage, Bruce Nauman