Silvia Giordani in the studio in Venice, 2024
I’ve always perceived landscape not as a place to be represented, but as a space to be imagined — a suspended dimension where time folds in on itself and the boundaries between the visible and the hidden begin to blur. My paintings are inhabited by silent, ambiguous forms that suggest natural forces or forgotten memories, like echoes from an elsewhere. Influenced by dystopian literature and speculative fiction, I use painting to question what lies beyond perception — portals, fragments, or signals from other possible realities. Each work is an attempt to hold a threshold open, to invite the viewer into a landscape that is at once distant and intimate, familiar and unknowable.Silvia Giordani
Silvia Giordani (born 1992, Vicenza, Italy) is a contemporary painter whose work explores the concept of landscape as a site of ambiguity, absence, and potential. Graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she has developed a unique visual language that bridges natural and synthetic dimensions, crafting imagined environments devoid of human presence but rich in silent, organic entities.
Her paintings are characterized by soft, layered atmospheres and altered chromatic structures, often traversed by ambiguous figures or mineral-vegetal forms. Giordani constructs these scenes using oil and acrylic on canvas, balancing intuitive gesture with compositional precision. The backgrounds — reminiscent of twilight skies, artificial light, or digital interfaces — serve as both temporal and psychological spaces, where perception becomes fluid and layered. Often influenced by speculative fiction and dystopian narratives, her works speak to transitional states, emotional dislocation, and the possibility of otherworldly architectures.
Recent exhibitions (2023–2025) include Bleu, a group show at PJ Galerie (Metz, France); Aldilà sarà at Spazio Berlendis (Venice); Apparizioni at Marignana Arte (Venice); Prima Vista, a solo exhibition at Andrea Festa Fine Art (Rome); Moon Walk at Buysse Gallery (Belgium); Lavinia and MIA at The Gate, DIFC (Dubai); The Sky is of All Eyes, curated by Andrea Festa at Taipei Dangdai (Taiwan); Timeless Land, curated by Domenico De Chirico at Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio (Todi); and Se il paesaggio è simbolico, curated by Linda Carrara at Boccanera Gallery (Milan and Trento). Her solo show Dov’è lontano, curated by Matteo Sormani and Amanda Hawkins Beltrame, was presented at Palazzo Cordellina (Vicenza).
Giordani has taken part in residency programs including Dolomiti Contemporanee, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, and Inedita 2, and was a finalist for the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri Award in 2023. In 2024, she received the Contemporary Art Award from the Veneto Region. In 2020, she co-founded the independent project space Kadabra Studio in Mestre, alongside ten other emerging artists.