She lives alone with a blind cat named Zero and a piano she cannot play but claims to "listen to." She rises at 4:00 AM daily. She does not own a smartphone. She corresponds by handwritten letter. Giulia M. has just announced her first major museum exhibition outside Europe: at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, followed by the Barbican in London. The work, titled A Dictionary of Lost Touches , will consist of 100 small machines, each designed to replicate a touch that no longer exists: the feel of a payphone receiver, the snap of a VHS clamshell case, the weight of a car ashtray.
"It's about the collective unconscious of a place," she explains. "A city is not its landmarks. A city is its abandoned conversations." giulia m
Giulia M.'s "The Unfinished City" runs through November. By appointment only. No photography. Bring nothing. Leave changed. She lives alone with a blind cat named
"Fashion wants the aesthetic of depth without the weight," she says now, not bitterly but factually. "I don't make decoration. I make rituals." "It's about the collective unconscious of a place,"
To experience the full work, visitors must walk between locations—a pilgrimage of four hours. At each stop, Giulia M. has installed what she calls "memory vessels": interactive sculptures that change based on the time of day, the weather, and the number of previous visitors.