Born in Naples, Italy 1977

Lives and works in London

MA Textiles 2005-06. Goldsmiths. University of London.

BA Surface Design 2002-05. London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London

 Gaya Giacometti is an artist working across disciplines. Her practice involves drawing, music, performance, creative writing and martial arts. She has extensively worked with textiles and refers to them as a fascinating and versatile medium that could never be confined to the gallery space.

Remarkably during her time at Goldsmiths, whilst expected to deliver a presentation of her latest video work, she confronted the seminar with a seemingly hypnotised businesswoman that  she claimed she had found at London Bridge station. Because she had no previous associations with performance art and because of the way she was 'acting out' her piece, a number of people  were drawn to believe her surreal story. This led to a series of question and answers and eventually to a failed attempt by the tutors to bring the event to its conventional form.

When asked how to describe her work as a whole she answers with a statement:

My practice deals with the paradox of a form that, in its fixity, is incapable to keep up with the flux of life from which it is generated. This  means identifying and drawing directly from a flux of life with no need to recur to the safety of existing ways. Finding new words, looking at ordinary things as if always for the first time,  dismantling existing styles. As an artist I commit to this sort of instinctive understanding. The experience that I call the only truth, creation.

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