Artist Biography
Simona Frillici, a multidisciplinary artist, explores the connections between painting, installation, video, and photography, creating works that unite personal and collective memory with contemporary languages. After completing her artistic studies in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, under the guidance of Nuvolo and Bruno Corà, Frillici embarked on a journey that expanded the traditional boundaries of painting, exploring its spatial and narrative dimensions.
In the 1990s, her works reflected an innovative use of heterogeneous materials—everyday objects, glass, plastic, and photographs—used as evocative tools to engage the viewer in a sensory and narrative experience. The images of the faces of missing people, often present in her works, take on a universal value, blending personal and collective history in a visual language rooted in artistic tradition yet projecting into the contemporary.
Frillici has exhibited in numerous prestigious venues in Italy and abroad, including the Quadriennale of Rome (2008) and international spaces such as the Wooster Arts Space in New York (2006). In 2011, she presented her first video, What is Art?, at the Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Umbria Region, sparking a wide reflection on the meaning of artistic creation.
Her activity is distinguished by projects that connect local and global communities, such as Ex-Voto Suscepto (2017), a collective participation held in the 18th-century Madonna delle Grazie church in Spoleto, and Cazzotto, an art festival organized between 2017 and 2019 in Perugia in collaboration with artist Gianni Piacentini.
Since 2020, inspired by her travels in India, Frillici has been working on a series of works titled Vibrations, which explores the contrasts and harmonies between cultures through images and installations. This journey will culminate in 2025 with a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, symbolizing a dialogue between Italian and Indian artistic traditions.
Simona Frillici continues to be a significant voice in contemporary art, capable of blending historical roots and experimentation with a unique sensitivity, offering audiences a profound and reflective experience.
