Italian born, Edinburgh based artist Vittoria Ginevri’s work is inspired by light, nostalgia and memories of a childhood spent in Southern Italy. Her practice explores moments of stillness and reflection. Through carefully curated bodies of work, she seeks to slow down time, capturing the atmosphere and emotional resonance of places, memories, and fleeting experiences.
“My practice generally revolves around themes of cultural identity and memory, and most of my imagery is generated through a process of archival research drawn from my father’s digital and analogue photography. My work, then, assumes a dimension within which I converse and relate to him – and hence create connections across time and space.
I am curious to explore how visual and auditory noise can be taken away by time and its subsequent fragmentation of memory. My practice is also about space. Informed cross-academically by my Visual Culture research project, I became interested in how representations of space can be used in contemporary art to generate rootedness within migration. I thus experiment with familiar Mediterranean icons (tiled floors, minimalism, religious imagery). In this way, I colonise the white-cube gallery spaces with the warmth and familiarity of my past homes”.
Vittria graduated with a BA (Hons) Painting from the Edinburgh College of Art ’26. We are delighted to be featuring Vittoria in our BREAKOUTS exhibition.
