Giovanna de Giglio, in art ‘Luce’ meaning ‘light’, is a roman based artist, often traveling around the world teaching meditation and yoga. Giovanna’s main language is performance and body art. She puts in scene transformative rituals through paintings, dance and breath. In fact, her creative activity mainly takes place in contact with the ground, horizontally, involving the body in a dance of materials and practices till reaching a verticality of emotions.

The involvement of meditative practices, that she combines with art and breathing techniques, in order to reach an aware state of presence, that moves her body in a flow and spontaneous dance that is translated than into colors, is propaedeutic for en existential transformation of the spectator that mirrors the healing of the artists process.

Therefore, the artists enacts a spiritual journey where ‘the other’ not only watches her flux of transformation, yet also becomes an integral part of the sacred ritual of the ‘visceral opening’ of the artist. It is like a personal statement saying ‘I exist alone’ ‘these are my prints’

During performances Luce gets free of her dependence of the gaze of ‘the other’ in order to exist fragmenting herself and then recomposing again in order to sublimate that greed that pushes her to exceed, the hunger that brings her to feel horror and repentance and then transform in a deep acceptance and in a even stronger affirmation of her freedom.

Therefore, Giovanna, in her performances, allows spectators to assist in a intimate way to the ‘evisceration’ of herself in a process of memory and identity acquisition and limits recognition troughs dynamics of expansions (chaos) and contractions (return to stillness).

She believes in the aesthetic dialogic experience of the art process combined with the spiritual and cathartic capacity of the image itself.

That means that the experience of painting becomes a path of learning; ‘dialogical’ ‘relation establishing a reciprocal ‘listening’ with the work of art ,where she expects the observer to actually experience a transformation thanks to the expansion of his inner ‘space’ .In this way the forms, shapes, reductions, overlapping, eliminations that she makes during the performance, becomes one with who is looking bringing a real transformation of the spirit .

In all her performance it is visible the caos from which everything originated,where she immerges herself into,to then discover the creation of a new space, between one movement and another, one breath and another witnessing the emerge of a new ‘togetherness’, where her identity,freed, finally emerges. The ‘apart’ seems to give life to ‘together’. Is like mother earth and father heaven separating and leaving space for the first breath…

There a new vital energy, the same that generated the world, makes her feel united in the creation process. In the silence, in the wound, in the same that remind her of my mother womb, she find herself with new creative kundalini energy and impulse and courage rooted into the present moment that allow her to face her full potential and ‘see’. Now, as she says, she can recognize herself melted with everything else, rooted in the flow of the sacred river of life.