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giulia deval

Multimedia artist, vocalist and PhD researcher exploring voice politics through sound works, audiovisual and participatory projects. 

Winner of the 7th Edition of Lydia Prize
by Fondazione Il Lazzaretto and PAC Milan, curated by Claudia D’Alonzo

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ART

  PITCH
  Notes on vocal intonation
  
  REASONS WHY I HATE MY VOICE
  workshop 
  
  Reverse Anthropology
  The Wanderers
  Before The Catastrophe
  Phonotrasparence

  MUSIC

  Nino Gvilia 
  Nicole, Hive Mind Records ︎︎︎
     
   Terrapolis︎︎︎
   XIPE︎︎︎ 
        Nepantleras︎︎︎
   The frequency code

 SOUND

    Attempt to Rise︎︎︎ 
    La festa dei fiori︎︎︎ 



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Nino Gvilia


A fictional character
An imaginary singer-songwriter
composing, playing live, answering interviews and living in mockumentary clips



Nino Gvilia is a fictional character, like that of a book, no more and no less.
According to biographical notes found online, she was born in Poti, near Lake Paliastomi, in the Republic of Georgia, but has always led a wandering life, recounted in the pseudo-film “Songwriting in Times of a Global Crisis”.

Nino Gvilia sings about forests, bodies loving each other in unusual ways and hallucinations; and anachronistically questions whether folk songs can still convey sentimental and political content by acting on our desire.
Being a fictional character, Nino Gvilia is an explicit disidentification that the body impersonating her performs towards a coherent scenic and digital “self” imposed by the cultural market.

Nino Gvilia is an invention, a way to replace the literary mechanisms behind self-branding with a totally fake literary construction. 
The project involves the composition of songs, live fake interviews and mockumentary clips. 

Nino Gvilia has released the album NICOLE / OVERWHEMED BY THE UNEPLAINED via Hive Mind Records (UK) in 2024 and has presented her music at Cafe Oto (London), Frequence 18 (Paris), Jazz is Dead Festival (Turin), SHORT TEATRE (Roma), THE LISTENERS (Turin), Ogni Altro Suono (Castrignano de’ Greci), Mercurio Festival (Palermo), Oostum Church (Groningen), The Gelderlandfabriek (Culemborg), Tiny Terrace (Amsterdam) a.o. 
The project won the support of MOVIN’UP of GAI for the international mobility in 2024. 







Nino Gvilia (giulia deval) plays with : 
zevi bordovach / synth, hammond, harmonium
pietro caramelli / electric guitar, electronics, vocals
giulia pecora / violin
clarissa marino / cello
erika sofia sollo, giulia beccaria, amos cappuccio,
matteo martino, zevi bordovach, pietro caramelli / choir

Instagram: nino_gvilia
Contact: ninogvilia.press@gmail.com
Pics by Nico Letta
Cover by Luce Berta

NICOLE / OVERWHELMED BY THE UNEXPLAINED is on Bancamp, Spotify and YouTube
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Nino Gvilia’s first show GREEN LARYNX UTERUS (Interview + concert) was born in the framework of Imaginary World Wide Web Exhibition project conceived by the Collective Endless House between Turin (Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli), Brussels (Hectolitre) and Barcelona (Convent) which reflected in a physical and metaphorical sense on the change of spaces through the simultaneity of performative actions connected through live streaming