It's out of love
It's out of love is the discreet theatre of relationships between subjects who ingest a small daily dose of poison. Metallic bodies and cold surfaces hold the trace of a desired and never completed transformation, the reflection of a beloved body, insufficient gestures of care, the promise of a love that coincides with its own loss. The effect is an aseptic and visceral representation of human incommunicability.
Spazio liminale
Aquarium
Aquarium is the reconstruction of a hybrid habitat in which present nature relates to the viewer through a language that fluctuates between attraction and interference. Each work underlines the heroic attitude of those who know how to adapt to life's changes, carrying their weight, without ever completely bending.
Per difetto
Per difetto is a body of work that approaches a negative dialectic, revealing how each person's error, pain and vulnerability are their most human and courageous part, the one from which something can still be born. It is an attempt to sublimate contradictions, not to console, but to recognise their common germ, their vital element.
Herhúsið
Works
Deborah Graziano
Castrovillari (CS), Italy, 1988. Lives and works between Castrovillari and Milan.
After graduating in Mechanical Engineering in 2012, she chose to devote herself entirely to art, embarking on a path that moves along the boundary between intuition and rigor, in search of a sense of unity.
Her practice investigates the relationship between body, nature and memory, understood as symbolic tools through which to explore the transformations and vulnerabilities of human experience. She creates sculptures and installations conceived as suspended beings, in which heterogeneous materials and unexpected juxtapositions reveal mysterious tensions and affinities.
Her work grows out of listening to intimate suggestions and traces gathered from everyday life: common objects, natural elements and remnants are removed from their condition as discarded matter and brought into relation with concrete, metals, wax, photography and video. Removed from their original context, they transform into enigmatic presences, charged with narrative potential.
She is drawn to the coexistence of irreconcilable polarities — hostile affinities, weight and lightness, wound and care — as well as to the productive use oferror, which she considers a generative and revelatory resource, capable of amplifying meaning precisely through its contradiction.
Each of her works is an act of recomposition and a reflection on the human condition, but also an attempt to create symbolic spaces in which pain and grace may coexist and fragility reveal its full power.
Solo exhibitions
2024, Spazio Liminale, Villa Guicciardini, Prato, IT
2023, Aquarium, former Prison, Castrovillari (CS), IT
2022, Per difetto, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, Aragonese Castle, Castrovillari (CS), IT
2020, Amor Vacui, curated by Roberto Sottile, Museum of the Present, Rende (CS), IT
Selected group exhibitions
2026, RDV N°2, curated by Bianca D'Ippolito and Michela Rossetti, Milan, IT
2025, It's out of love, Viafarini Open Studio, Milan, IT
2025, Aquarium II, curated by Laura Maradei, Spazio3, Art City Bologna, IT
2022, Fracta, curated by Erika Lacava, SCD Studio, Perugia, IT
2021, Sanatorium, curated by Sara Maietta, Artiglieria, Turin, IT
2020, Paratissima Talents, curated by Francesca Canfora, Artiglieria, Turin, IT
2019, Multiversity, Artiglieria, Turin, IT
Awards & Special mentions
2026, Jury selection, Combat Prize XVII
2026, Quality shortlist, Crea Open 2026, Venice, IT
2024, Finalist of Exibart Prize 4
2022, Artist in evidence, Cramum Prize
2019, Best N.I.C.E. Artist, Paratissima Fair, Turin, IT
2019, Best 15 Artists, Paratissima Fair, Turin, IT
Residencies
2025, VIR, Via Farini in Residence, Milan, IT
2023, Herhúsið, Icelandic Art Center, Siglufjörður, IS
Press & Magazines
2026, RDV N°2 (opere tra presenza e assenza), Elena Bordignon, ATP Diary
2026, Milan: une exposition poétique dans un appartement inhabité, Margault Antonini, Milk Decoration
2023, Punti di vista sul sacro, Gabriele Landi, Parola d'Artista
2022, Deborah Graziano Castello Aragonese di Castrovillari, Petra Feriancova, VLNA Magazine, n.92, pp.31-35
