Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula is a photographer who pushes the boundaries of the medium through installation-based works. He does not use photography merely as a medium, but rather draws on the principles that underpin it, particularly the notion of ‘impression,’...
Read MoreGiangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula is a photographer who pushes the boundaries of the medium through installation-based works. He does not use photography merely as a medium, but rather draws on the principles that underpin it, particularly the notion of ‘impression,’ understood in its etymological sense as the act of imprinting or engraving upon the self. His work questions whether our most fundamental choices are genuinely ‘free’ or shaped by underlying forms of conditioning.
Thus, his research pivots around the neural basis of hatred, prejudice, and bias. While in San Francisco, he came to realise that he had internalised racism. This realisation sparked his desire to investigate the roots of his own conditioning, taking the cue from neuroscience for insights and visual art as a means of expression.
This introspective process significantly informed his artistic perspective, offering viewers an invitation to recognize and confront their own internalised beliefs.
In 2025, he founded The Plot Foundation (www.theplotfoundation.org), an organisation committed to embrace art to investigate and disseminate the complexity of neuroscience involved in any social bias, through exhibitions, workshops and research while promoting listening and empathy as options. The foundation systematises and broadens the participatory ethos of such a practice, fostering collective inquiry and experimentation at the crossroads of art and science.
His installations A Postcard for Floyd and YOLO have been respectively awarded the International Pluribus Film Festival, Naples, 2025, and New Post Photography Award, MIA - Milan Image Art Fair, 2022.
