GIULIA PARLATO

Diachronicles (2019/2020)

DIACHRONICLES (2019/2020)

Diachronicles is an examination of the historical space, regarded as a fictional container where an apparent collection of evidences opens up to the fantastic. In this space, the attempt to reconstruct the past falls into phantasmal gaps, where things are generated, used, buried, unearthed, transported, and relocated.

This nomadic and fragmentary nature of what has been left behind, reveals how the movement, transfiguration, and misinterpretation of objects shape historiography and ultimately, the real.

In the impossible search of academic legitimation, the viewer is invited into a world where the factual and the fake overlap. The work addresses the leading role archaeology and the museum space play in a historical narrative, using the human body to suggest scale and as a means to display objects.

Furthermore, Diachronicles digs into a parallel history, filled with poetic figures to encode, nonexistent artefacts and forgeries hidden in museums basements. 

Special thanks to Claudio Giordano, Director of Museo Archeologico Regionale A. Salinas Caterina Greco, former director Francesca Spatafora, Sandro Garrubbo, Director of Museo di Zoologia P. Doderlein Sabrina Lo Brutto, Enrico Bellia, Soprintendenza per i beni culturali e ambientali di Palermo: The Director Lina Bellanca, the director of the archeological heritage section Stefano Vassallo and the archeologists Rosa Maria Cucco, Giuseppina Battaglia and Filippo Iannì.

DIACHRONICLES (2019/2020)

Diachronicles is an examination of the historical space, regarded as a fictional container where an apparent collection of evidences opens up to the fantastic. In this space, the attempt to reconstruct the past falls into phantasmal gaps, where things are generated, used, buried, unearthed, transported, and relocated.

This nomadic and fragmentary nature of what has been left behind, reveals how the movement, transfiguration, and misinterpretation of objects shape historiography and ultimately, the real.

In the impossible search of academic legitimation, the viewer is invited into a world where the factual and the fake overlap. The work addresses the leading role archaeology and the museum space play in a historical narrative, using the human body to suggest scale and as a means to display objects.

Furthermore, Diachronicles digs into a parallel history, filled with poetic figures to encode, nonexistent artefacts and forgeries hidden in museums basements. 

Special thanks to Claudio Giordano, Director of Museo Archeologico Regionale A. Salinas Caterina Greco, former director Francesca Spatafora, Sandro Garrubbo, Director of Museo di Zoologia P. Doderlein Sabrina Lo Brutto, Enrico Bellia, Soprintendenza per i beni culturali e ambientali di Palermo: The Director Lina Bellanca, the director of the archeological heritage section Stefano Vassallo and the archeologists Rosa Maria Cucco, Giuseppina Battaglia and Filippo Iannì.

The Dig, Giclée print, 84x67 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

In Preservation, In Destruction, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Lizard, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

The Storyteller,  Giclée print, 100x80 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Encounter, Giclée print, 84x67 cm, edition of 10 + 2 AP

Seizure, 84x67 cm, edition of 10 + 2 AP

Fix, Glicée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Limestone, Glicée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Vase with Cats, Glicée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Quarry, Giclée print, 100x80 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Satyr and Hermaphrodite, Giclée print, 130x103 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 

"Satyr and Hermaphrodite" is a collaboration between visual artist Giulia Parlato and 3D artist Giuseppe Alaimo. This work is part of the series Diachronicles by Giulia Parlato.

Evidence n.1, Glicée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Falcon, Giclée print, 100x80 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Ladder, Giclée print, 100x80 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Evidence n.2, Giclée print, 84x67 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Evidence n.3, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Box, Giclée print, 130x86 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Library,Giclée print, 84x67cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Wunderkammer, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Evidence n.4, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Gap, Giclée print, 100x80cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

 Stratigraphy, Giclée print, 84x67cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Empty Box, Giclée print, 59,4x47,4cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP

The Discovery.


"The Discovery" is a collaboration between visual artist Giulia Parlato and director Claudio Giordano. This video is part of the series Diachronicles by Giulia Parlato.

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