Giorgia Zait
artista
My name is Giorgia Zait, I was born in Milan but I have Romanian origins.
Formazione
I am a Visual Arts student at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. My education develops through an interdisciplinary approach that includes visual arts, performance and humanistic and cultural research.Alongside my artistic practice, I carry out personal research exploring the connections between theology, art, and contemporary culture, with a particular focus on the languages of the body and the symbolic dimension of the image.Performance plays a central role in my practice as a space for experimentation and dialogue between theory and direct experience. In addition to artistic production, I am engaged in writing, poetry, and photographic documentation, which I consider tools for reflection and a means to deepen creative processes.
Tematiche
My first approach as an iconographer has deeply influenced my way of thinking about the image: icon painting,with its symbolic and ritual charge, has laid the foundations of my artistic sensitivity, rooting in me an interest in the sacred understood not only as a religious dimension, but as a collective and interior experience.Within my path in Brera, this research on sacredness has opened up and transformed, with the aim of creating a shared space where as many people as possible can recognize and/or find themselves. I seek an accessible sacredness, a common "feeling" that transcends religious or cultural affiliations, capable of touching deep chords of human experience. This symbolic space is built through dialogue between different disciplines and expressive languages.From painting to poetry, from installation to performance - often combining multiple mediums in a single work - I investigate concepts such as symbol, ritual, home and the values that derive from it, personal and interpersonal relationships, memory, the visible and the invisible.My work is nourished by my origins and my experience as much as by the present in which I operate: I consider it fundamental to let myself be influenced in an active and conscious way by what surrounds me, by the reality I inhabit, by the places, the people and the social and cultural dynamics of the time in which I live.I love experimenting with different mediums, themes and materials, often intertwining multiple languages to create an immersive and complex experience. In my installations I frequently insert various objects, poems, sensorial elements such as smells, textures and sounds, with the aim of involving the audience not only visually, but also physically and emotionally. These elements often accompany performances in the background, creating an environment in which the work lives in time and space, enriched by gesture and presence.My works can range from great minimalism to much denser and more layered forms, both visually and conceptually. For me, there is no hierarchy between simplicity and complexity: every formal choice arises from a precise communicative and sensitive need. In every project, the technical and aesthetic choices are guided by the content and intention, in a balance that I constantly seek between form and meaning.