Giulia M -

Her process is forensic. When she built Mourning Machine (2021)—a kinetic sculpture made from the gears of a decommissioned funicular railway—she spent six weeks interviewing former railway workers. She recorded their voices, slowed them to subsonic frequencies, and embedded the audio into the sculpture's motor. When Mourning Machine runs, it does not sound like grief. It sounds like a mountain exhaling.

Critic Elena Vascotto wrote: "You do not watch Giulia M.'s work. You are absorbed by it. She has turned the gallery into a nervous system, and you are a synapse." giulia m

"I grew up believing that every object holds a conversation," Giulia recalls, running a finger along a rusted spring on her worktable. "You just have to be quiet enough to hear it." Her process is forensic

Giulia's response is characteristically quiet. "I don't make sad work," she says. "I make work that doesn't lie about time. Time takes things. That's not tragic. That's physics." When Mourning Machine runs, it does not sound like grief