Giulia Zanvit lives and works between Lyon and Générargues in the Cévennes. A multidisciplinary visual artist, her work is nourished by her relationship with nature. A sensitive, humble, devoted, almost sacred relationship.

Through her paintings, sculptures, collages, and installations, the artist recycles materials and fragments of nature that she gathers during her customary wanderings. A free spirit, a wild soul in perpetual search of unadorned beauty, Giulia Zanvit strives to reveal the poetry of the moment, the beauty of the simple gesture, the purity of intention.

Her works unfold like an initiatory journey, a rediscovery of the world around us, a tribute to life. In her practice, there is first the gaze that settles and lingers, then the instinctive gesture of a child picking up a pebble by the water's edge or a stick in the forest. This collection will later serve as the basis for a work that the artist creates effortlessly, and through which the object, the seemingly humble material, reveals its full nobility. For Giulia, true work thus lies in knowing how to observe, consider, and marvel at the seemingly insignificant, which takes on the appearance of a whole.

For the Primary Materials exhibition, the artist has chosen to present some of his latest creations, including a drawing from the Attraversare series. A fragment of landscape or an immersive journey into the heart of matter, this work evokes the resonance between microscopic and macroscopic forms found in nature. In Kappuru, the pair of stoneware vases is arranged in the manner of Japanese Ikebana. The contents—Milk Thistle or Silver Basket—become as important as the container. And then there is the Guardians series, these strange spirits whose animal or humanoid form seems so familiar to us. While the deceptive paper takes on the appearance of stone, the work is nonetheless distinguished by its delicate, light, and immutable form.