Giulia Cenci

Giulia Cenci creates elaborate sculptures and installations by fusing industrial elements and organic forms, arranging them into jarring compositions that invite viewers to question human’s relationship with nature. Cenci’s work features animals, plants, and human appendages cast from melted-down scrap metal, reusing found objects, agricultural tools, old machinery, and car parts. These seemingly disparate elements are then hung, suspended, or pierced together like pieces of meat, morphing into a wild habitat void of hierarchy—where a human bone is treated with the same care as the branch of a tree or a wolf’s face.

Giulia Cenci (b. 1988, Cortona, Italy) lives and works in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy. Cenci has presented solo exhibitions at institutions internationally, including Centre d’art de Saint-Fons, Lyon, France (2023); Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023); Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay (2022); MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2021); Museo Novecento, Firenze, Italy (2021); and Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy (2019). Recent group exhibitions include Unruly Bodies, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2023); Reaching for the stars, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy (2023); Face to Face, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022); Strange – Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain (2022); and Shapeshifters, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden (2020). She has participated in major international group exhibitions and biennials including The Milk of Dreams, the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022); and Jeune création internationale, the 15th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (2019).