Giorgia Fiorio

Independent artist, author of 14 monographs, over a thirty-year’s research around the human figure, Fiorio questions the dialectic-interrelation between presence and vision. Here photography does not replicate “that which is seen”, it is a luminous signal disclosing that ‘there is’ which vision withholds. From 2000 to 2010 with the project The Gift, Fiorio explored ritual expressions of Sacred over 38 countries around the world. The book, The Gift has been granted the UNESCO High Patronage in 2009. Ongoing since 2010, the project Humanum, disclosing the transfiguration of sculptural appearance in light’s variations, reconsiders today’s perception of the archetypal figuration in ancient human statuary as an endless origin, contemporary to our time and any-time.

For this project—in progress since 2010—Fiorio has collaborated with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa and worked so far at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens; the Acropolis Museum of Athens; the Louvre Museum in Paris; the Iraq Museum of Baghdad; the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Wien; the National Archaeological Museum of Cyprus in Nicosia; the Egyptian Museum of Cairo; the Royal Commission of Al-Ula at King Saud Museum in Riyadh; the Jordan Museum of Amman. Humanum has been presented for the first time with Fiorio’s seminar: The archaeology of Being at the College de France in 2018, hosted by the European Chair of Victor’s Stoichita. 

Founder and director of the international seminar of contemporary photography Reflexions Masterclass (2002-2012), Fiorio has been Faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York, (2007-2014) and is affiliated to Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. Besides magazines publications over 25 countries, Fiorio’s books have been published in France; Italy, France, Germany and Greece and had over 30 personal shows around the globe. 

From January 22nd to April 30th 2023 Fiorio’s works from humanum project on display at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, have been presented in a silent vis à vis with three masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum’s Collection of Tahrir Square.

The Ontology of Vision. The Invisible, Consciousness of Living Matter, Giorgia Fiorio.

On June 29^th 2023, for the opening of Victoria & Albert Museum of London Medieval Masterpieces exhibition, hosted by the Al-Thani Collection, the work: Head of  Šulgi, ATC 592, Néosumerian, 2050 BC, Paradeigma C4-1 GF © Humanum 2023 has been presented with the original statuary work.

THE GIFT