Diachronicles

Diachronicles is an examination of the historical space, regarded as a fictional container where an apparent collection of evidences opens up to the fantastic. In this space, the attempt to reconstruct the past falls into phantasmal gaps, where things are generated, used, buried, unearthed, transported, and relocated.

This nomadic and fragmentary nature of what has been left behind, reveals how the movement, transfiguration, and misinterpretation of objects shape historiography and ultimately, the real.

In the impossible search of academic legitimation, the viewer is invited into a world where the factual and the fake overlap. The work addresses the leading role archaeology and the museum space play in a historical narrative, using the human body to suggest scale and as a means to display objects.

Furthermore, Diachronicles digs into a parallel history, filled with poetic figures to encode, nonexistent artefacts and forgeries hidden in museums basements. This exploration, started at the Royal College of Art in 2018, is still ongoing.

© Giulia Parlato - Lizard, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Lizard, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - In Preservation, in Destruction I Feel Trapped, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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In Preservation, in Destruction I Feel Trapped, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - The Dig, Giclée print, 84x67 cm
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The Dig, Giclée print, 84x67 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Evidence n.4, Giclée print,, 59.4x42 cm
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Evidence n.4, Giclée print,, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Limestone, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Limestone, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - The Storyteller, Giclée print, 100x80 cm
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The Storyteller, Giclée print, 100x80 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Encounter, Giclée print, 84x67 cm
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Encounter, Giclée print, 84x67 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Ladder, Giclée print, 100x80 cm
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Ladder, Giclée print, 100x80 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Falcon, Giclée print, 100x80 cm
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Falcon, Giclée print, 100x80 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Evidence n.1, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Evidence n.1, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Quarry, Giclée print, 100x80 cm
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Quarry, Giclée print, 100x80 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Evidence n.3, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Evidence n.3, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Evidence n.2, 84x67 cm
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Evidence n.2, 84x67 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Box, Giclée print, 100x80 cm
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Box, Giclée print, 100x80 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Wunderkammer, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Wunderkammer, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Stratigraphy, Giclée print, 84x67 cm
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Stratigraphy, Giclée print, 84x67 cm

© Giulia Parlato - Empty Box, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm
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Empty Box, Giclée print, 59.4x42 cm

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