The work of Giampaolo Parrilla (b.1997) explores the themes of violence and ambiguity of the image and language, the relationship between collective narratives, power structures and catastrophe, and the connection between fragility of the body and artificial technological power, through geopolitical tools.

 

The works reprocess global news, images of conflicts, infographic maps, propaganda, data models, photos of military weapons systems, NGO reports, which become tools of investigation on the theme of vision, on how we are used to thinking and understanding reality, and representation.

 

His research questions bodies and their connections with violent use of technology, symbolic and social inferences, the legacies of historical crises, and the revolutionary potential of the collective imagination. 

 

His practice questions the ways in which crisis events can be represented and narrated, and art processes and objects used to articulate them, both at the level of metaphor and imagination as an act of resistance and sabotage.