Hi, I'm Giulia Filippi from Italy

BIOGRAPHY
Giulia Filippi (aka Iovi Sacra Art) comes from Italy and is 36 years old. She studied Visual Arts at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan, and later moved to the multicultural and artistic city of Berlin, where she studied German and photography and took a career-oriented training and coaching course. Thanks to her creativity, attention to detail, and ability to illustrate different themes, she had the opportunity to work as a freelance illustrator, photographer, and model, while simultaneously working in art galleries, museums, and fashion agencies. She has organized many art exhibitions independently, won several international competitions, and her artworks have been exhibited and published in Italy, Austria, Germany, Portugal, the United States, Finland, Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates, France, China, Belgium, Russia, Canada, South Korea, and the Metaverse. In 2017, she began studying Graphic, Digital Design & Communication in Vicenza, Italy. Today, she works in digital art and visual design.

ARTIST STATEMENT
The perfect geometric figure, the circle, is broken in her logo.
This symbol is her mirror: it reflects herself and her vision of the world, and it is always associated with her slogan “I try to find beauty in things that are imperfect. Like me.”
She has always felt dissatisfied with how today's society communicates. She felt imperfect for many years in a world that demands perfection and promotes values of absolute flawlessness (in bodies, thoughts, careers, and families...) until, after years and years, she simply learned to accept herself and turn all her inadequacy into a strength.
She brings the same poetics into her art. She began to distort everything she was given by society: everything seems to be too perfect, too schematic, too pre-set, too symmetrical and at the same time so terribly unreal.
Always hovering between realism and surrealism, between irony and riddles of the modern man, Giulia mixes bright colors to give life to an environment where thanks to her art and, above all, thanks to multiple self-portrait techniques, she can feel more comfortable, free and real.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
'Perfectly Imperfect' is a self-portrait project that questions, deconstructs, and reinterprets the visual codes, aesthetic standards, and sterilized social models of contemporary life that are imposed on us daily.
For years, Giulia felt out of place, as if there were a model to follow that didn’t represent her. Then she realized that within that fracture lay her most authentic self. She began working with her image to convey what cannot be seen, what we tend to hide, and what doesn’t conform. She was raised in an era where perfection is currency and imperfection means exclusion: we are not allowed to be fragile, suffering must not be shown, fear is only for the weak, and stepping outside the frame draws too much attention. Failure is almost taboo.
What she tries to do is approach these themes in a new way: she loves to flip the perspective.
Each photograph is a staged fracture: of identity, of symmetry, and of social expectations. The body becomes a vehicle for emotion, reflection, and provocation, a tool to speak about identity, social pressure, fragility, and resistance. If the self-portrait represents the moment of identification and acceptance of the image, then the environment becomes a mirror and container of identity. She aims to create a visual space where she can be free, vulnerable, and sometimes unsettling. Human.
She uses conceptual and surreal language to distort, overlap, erase, and exaggerate. Not to hide, but to reveal. Each image is a question, a gesture, and an attempt at dialogue with the viewer.