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Critic Elena Vascotto wrote: "You do not watch Giulia M.'s work. You are absorbed by it. She has turned the gallery into a nervous system, and you are a synapse."

"I don't want to illustrate emotion," she says. "I want to circuit it. The viewer completes the work with their own history." giulia m

To experience the full work, visitors must walk between locations—a pilgrimage of four hours. At each stop, Giulia M. has installed what she calls "memory vessels": interactive sculptures that change based on the time of day, the weather, and the number of previous visitors. Critic Elena Vascotto wrote: "You do not watch Giulia M

Her materials read like a crime scene inventory: melted vinyl records from a flooded Naples archive, glass shards from a 1980s nightclub mirror, rainwater collected from the rooftops of five different psychiatric hospitals. Nothing is arbitrary. Every inclusion is a citation. In 2022, Gucci came calling. Alessandro Michele, then creative director, asked her to design the sound environment for a runway show in a deconsecrated church. She agreed—but only if she could also build the floor. The result was a catwalk of compressed ash from a burned forest in Calabria, embedded with contact microphones. As models walked, the floor emitted a dry, granular crackle. "I want to circuit it

In the hushed, golden-hour light of her Milanese studio, Giulia M. does not so much create as she translates. She takes the frequency of a feeling—loss, wonder, the static of a crowded city—and renders it into physical form. To some, she is a sculptor. To others, a sound artist. To a growing global following, she is the architect of a new kind of sensory honesty.