Giosetta Fioroni at GAM Torino from today April 16, 2025

The exhibition curated by Elena Volpato, dedicated to the films of Giosetta Fioroni, preserved in the Videoteca collection. This is the nineteenth installment in the series of exhibitions through which the GAM has been telling the story of the first season of Italian artist films and videos from the 1960s and 1970s.

Giosetta Fioroni made four films, all in 1967. For some years now, she had already been using cinema and TV images in her paintings; using industrial silver enamel paint, she crafted ephemeral visions – apparitions of light that flickered like fleeting impressions on a white screen. Her works often depicted female faces, frozen in time, framed and repeated, resembling luminous traces of film frames in silver salts.

Fioroni once described her work: “I was searching for lightness, almost like an old sequence by the Lumière brothers from cinema’s earliest days—something that simply passes [...], something that conveys a sense of the tremulous, of extreme delicacy for the viewer: an apparition, a fading.”