Iron Tastes Sweet 
Exhibition Text by Stefano Giura
Berlin, March 2022
Drawing is a discreet, silent artistic expression; the point, the line, the motif – geometric or anti-geometric – are its constituents.
The characteristic feature of Giulia Palombino’s artworks is the thin line, open or closed, broken or continuous, with little or no colour, but always thin.
The discipline and care of the line visibly imply inner states of tension that sublimate chaos by resolving it in form. These drawings are imbued with surrealist suggestions: Automatic writing explores territories contiguous to consciousness and transfers structures, formulas and symbols of dreamlike imagery to conscious thought – moving from the individual to the collective and making the material communicable through suggestions.
We find in the forefront figurative objects in strong counterpoint, whose spatial relationship to the white-empty background suggests the essential guidelines of a plot of possible attributes. Affinity, polarity and recombination of elements: These are the origin of the forcefield that puts the white background in tension – a canvas for the unconscious that enumerates attributes and discovers meanings; the signs deform the white-emptiness, not in a coincidental way, but by defining axes and coordinates on which the common sense and the common way of seeing and feeling are induced and routed: Thus meaning is born in the observer. Starting from a few basic motifs with a high specific density – through stratification, iteration and progressive aggregation – we arrive at the codification of lexical and formal epithets: sets of lines joined together to determine a symbolic vocabulary rich in original and personal elements through which one becomes accustomed to knowing and recognising the artist’s lexicon and imagination.