Juliana Galbetti is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary research examines the lapses of human perception and the ways in which systems of classification, archives, and display devices participate in the construction of reality. Her practice emerges from the friction between concepts and materials charged with symbolic, historical, and political density.
Her process often begins with the collection, organization, and cataloguing of residues, documents, images, and everyday objects. Once removed from their original contexts and placed within new structures of attention, these materials reveal the operations through which values are produced, narratives are legitimized, and certain presences are suppressed or erased. Galbetti investigates how acts of naming, ordering, and display not only assign meaning and authority, but also manufacture desire. By determining what should be seen, possessed, consumed, preserved, or discarded, these systems shape the ways in which we relate to objects, images, one another, and ourselves.
Through these displacements, the artist develops installations, sculptures, objects, ready-mades, and drawings, treating modes of presentation not as neutral supports but as constitutive elements of the work. Display cases, archives, inventories, tables, labels, and classificatory structures become critical devices through which the mechanisms connecting power, memory, representation, and desire are made perceptible.
Galbetti excavates layers of meaning from the material traces of the present. Rather than reconstructing a stable truth, her works reorganize evidence and generate hypotheses, tensions, and competing narratives around human experience and civilizational processes. Operating across unstable boundaries between fiction and legitimacy, visibility and erasure, injustice and rights, her practice questions not only what we see, but also the systems that determine what becomes visible, recognizable, desirable, and accepted as truth.
