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Eva Giolo - Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, 2024 - Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano-Bozen, Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Eva Giolo, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, 2024. Video. Curated by Francesca Verga and Zasha Colah. Commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano in collaboration with Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

Eva Giolo is an audiovisual artist working in film, video and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Giolo uses her camera to capture the “mundane” moments of the everyday to reveal their hidden depth.

For The Parliament of Marmots, in a collaboration between Biennale Gherdëina and Ar/Ge Kunst Bolzano and with the support of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Giolo produced the short film Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths. In the valleys surrounding the Dolomite Mountains, children reimagine ancient Ladin legends while they examine bodies of water, holes, caves and passages looking for something lost or forgotten. Through a poetic choreography, the film becomes a fictional journey connecting past and present. Creating resonances between the landscape, magical thinking and Ladin – the protected old Rhaeto-Romanic language of the valleys, a puzzle unfolds as a timeless fable. (S.G.) 

EVA GIOLO

Eva Giolo (1991, Brussels, Belgium) is an artist working on analogue film. Her work has been widely exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally, including MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Art, Rome; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Harlan Levey Projects, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, and WIELS, Brussels; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Kunsthalle Wien; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Viennale, Vienna; FIDMarseille; Vision du Réel, Nyon; and New York Film Festival, among others. She is the recipient of a VAF Wildcard Prize (2016), the Cedric Willemen Award (2019), and special recognition from the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation (2020). Her film Flowers Blooming in Our Throats (2020) was nominated for the European Film Awards (2020). She is co-founder of elephy, a production and distribution organisation for film and media art.

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Eva Giolo - Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, 2024 - Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano-Bozen, Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Eva Giolo, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, 2024. Video. Curated by Francesca Verga and Zasha Colah. Commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano in collaboration with Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

Eva Giolo is an audiovisual artist working in film, video and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Giolo uses her camera to capture the “mundane” moments of the everyday to reveal their hidden depth.

For The Parliament of Marmots, in a collaboration between Biennale Gherdëina and Ar/Ge Kunst Bolzano and with the support of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Giolo produced the short film Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths. In the valleys surrounding the Dolomite Mountains, children reimagine ancient Ladin legends while they examine bodies of water, holes, caves and passages looking for something lost or forgotten. Through a poetic choreography, the film becomes a fictional journey connecting past and present. Creating resonances between the landscape, magical thinking and Ladin – the protected old Rhaeto-Romanic language of the valleys, a puzzle unfolds as a timeless fable. (S.G.) 

EVA GIOLO

Eva Giolo (1991, Brussels, Belgium) is an artist working on analogue film. Her work has been widely exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally, including MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Art, Rome; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Harlan Levey Projects, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, and WIELS, Brussels; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Kunsthalle Wien; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Viennale, Vienna; FIDMarseille; Vision du Réel, Nyon; and New York Film Festival, among others. She is the recipient of a VAF Wildcard Prize (2016), the Cedric Willemen Award (2019), and special recognition from the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation (2020). Her film Flowers Blooming in Our Throats (2020) was nominated for the European Film Awards (2020). She is co-founder of elephy, a production and distribution organisation for film and media art.