In this new solo exhibition, Pascale Giorgi brings together a body of sculptural works formed through a process of remixing, reviving, and reassembling. Experiments, failures, leftovers of successes and half-baked ideas are mashed together to create sense from the detritus of the artist’s studio in a kind of anti-retrospective, a worst hits compilation.
Worst Hits features familiar motifs from Pascale’s practice: knock-off Neo-classical sculptures, tiny bricks, humorous vegetables, urns, jesters, animals, and Toyotas. Drawing from traces of past shows, sketches from visual diaries, or things never shown because they were structurally or conceptually unsound, old ideas resurface as pseudo-archaeological artefacts of an art practice.
Part studio clean-out, part exorcism, Worst Hits alludes to the invisible spectre of storage and expensive studio rent, while mapping an artistic practice, tracing recurring themes, research interests, and material fixations that shape the creation of artworks.
Presented by Perth Festival and Goolugatup Heathcote
Pascale Giorgi is a multidisciplinary artist, working mainly in sculpture. She has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Italy and Australia. In her practice, ancient and medieval culture and visual languages are often borrowed and subverted to make way for mash-ups, hybrids and (lost-in-) translations.
A graduate of Curtin University (2015) and a HATCHED alumnus (PICA, Perth, 2016), Giorgi’s exhibitions include Dungeon Crawl, Lightworks (Perth, 2025); MIRROR IMAGE (curated by Emma Buswell), Lawson Flats (Perth, 2024); Oblique Politics (curated by Guy Louden), Goolugatup Heathcote (Perth, 2023); The Rock Pool (with Jessee Lee Johns, Kieron Broadhurst, Jess Day, Jack wanborough and Oliver Hull), Artsource Fremantle (Perth, 2023); Putting on Clown Makeup, Goolugatup Heathcote (Perth, 2022); Out of Bounds, PICA (Perth, 2022); Cloisterfuck (with Guy Louden), Private Island (Perth, 2021); Sculpture by the Sea (Cottesloe, 2021); It’s okay baby you’ll be reborn, Cool Change Gallery (Perth, 2019); AGRIFUTURA, in collaboration with Benedetta Mori, Spazio Lum (Lucca, Italy, 2019); Il Venere Trasforma, developed with Italian sound artist Simone Grande, RONZII Fuco Contemporary (Pisa, Italy, 2019). Giorgi was awarded the main prize, Melville Contemporary, 2021, and in the same year was a finalist in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. In 2022, her work was exhibited in the Joondalup Invitational Art Prize. In 2023, she was selected for the 2023 Ramsay Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Mid West Art Prize.
