Eva Giolo: In Camera
In parallel to her presentation at AFFILIATE, Eva Giolo presents a looped film screening in the WIELS auditorium, featuring works produced between 2020 and 2025.
Film screening: Saturday 28.02 and Sunday 01.03, 11:00-18:00
Starting every hour / English subtitles
WIELS Auditorium
Free admission
Courtesy of the artist
Short films by Eva Giolo (2020-2025)
Memory is An Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths
24 minutes, 2025
In Memory is An Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths, the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s-eye, the film streams into the specific, hidden, and vast geologies of the Dolomite mountains, through the trills and murmurs of Ladin, the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region.
(Text by Open City Documentary Film Festival)
Stone, Hat, Ribbon and Rose
16 minutes, 2023
Stone, Hat, Ribbon and Rose offers a strictly personal and decidedly fragmented guide to Brussels; this idiosyncratic city symphony takes us across different urban terrains and unveils each location’s visual and sonic wonders. Playful and sombre, quotidian and fantastic, Eva Giolo’s film is a tender love letter to Akerman’s work.
(Text by Hyun Jin Cho)
Flowers Blooming in Our Throats
8 minutes, 2020
Filmed on 16mm just after the lockdown caused by COVID-19, Flowers Blooming in Our Throats is an intimate, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The artist films a group of her friends in their own homes, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. Giolo chooses to walk a shifting line where gestures remain symbolically ambiguous, expressing a kind of violence that is not immediately recognizable.
(Text by Leonardo Bigazzi)
Silent Conversations
8 minutes, 2023
Hand-processed and self-printed 16mm reversal and negative colour films, Silent Conversations is a study of twenty-second sequences of embraces that unfolds as a series of time-based portraits.
Eva Giolo is an artist working with film, video, and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and structuralist strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Her films, installations and other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Media City Film Festival, Viennale, FIDMarseille, Courtisane Film Festival, Vision du Réel, Punto de Vista, Anthology Film Archives and New York Film Festival, amongst others. She is co-founder of the production company elephy and her films are distributed by Light Cone.