INTERVIEW | Giulia Aim

10 Questions with Giulia Aim

Giulia Aim (b. 1998) is an Italian multimedia artist from Rome whose work is defined by a saturated visual language, an instinctive use of colour, and visually magnetic compositions that balance intensity, beauty, irony, and perceptual disorientation.

Her practice explores the hidden intensity of forms, surfaces, and living matter, transforming familiar subjects into unexpected visual experiences. Driven by curiosity and experimentation, her work moves between organic structures, altered perception, and the search for patterns and connections beyond the immediately visible.

Giulia has been painting since childhood and holds a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the University of the Arts London and a BA in Communications with a Minor in Entrepreneurship from John Cabot University, Rome.

She is the Founder and Creative Director of Arte is More (AIM), an independent creative project bringing together contemporary art, design, fashion, and visual culture through exhibitions, collaborations, creative direction, editorial projects, and immersive experiences.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Rome, London, and Los Angeles.

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Giulia Aim - Portrait

Slices of Life - The Time of Nature | Project Description

Slices of Life – The Time of Nature is an ongoing series of over thirty large-scale circular acrylic paintings based on enlarged cross-sections of fruits and vegetables.

Removed from their ordinary scale and function, these familiar forms become monumental, immersive, and strangely alive. Through saturated colour and meticulous layers of translucent paint, Giulia amplifies veins, seeds, fibres, textures, and imperfections until the everyday becomes almost unrecognisable. The circular format further removes each subject from traditional still life, evoking at once a scientific specimen, a celestial body, and an icon.

At the heart of the series lies an investigation into the hidden architecture of nature. Seeds resemble constellations, veins echo rivers, while roots and neurons form networks. Across radically different scales, similar structures appear to return, raising a central question within the artist’s research: what if nature repeats itself?

These visual echoes become points of investigation into complexity, self-organisation, networks, and emergence. Moving between the microscopic and the cosmic, Giulia searches for connections between forms that initially appear separate.

At the same time, the works remain rooted in nourishment and the rhythms of the natural world: earth, water, light, growth, ripening, decay, and renewal. Through scale and close observation, the smallest fragments of living matter begin to reveal something infinitely larger..

Slices Of Life, Installation View, 2026 © Giulia Aim

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INTERVIEW

Let’s start from the beginning. Can you tell us about your artistic journey and what inspired you to become a multimedia artist?

As a child, I dreamed of becoming a scientist. What fascinated me was experimentation and the idea that curiosity could transform ordinary things into unexpected discoveries. Looking back, I never stopped doing that. Art simply became my laboratory.

You work across painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. How do you decide which medium best expresses an idea?

I begin with a question. Every project starts as an investigation. Sometimes an idea needs the intimacy of painting, other times it requires the physical presence of sculpture, or the immersive quality of an installation. I never choose a medium first. I simply follow the idea until it reveals the form it was always meant to take.

Vital Core - Dragon Fruit I, Acrylic On Wood, 70 cm Diameter, 2026 © Giulia Aim

Your work is known for its bold colours and striking compositions. What role does colour play in your creative process?

Colour lies at the heart of everything I create. I've always been fascinated by its intensity. The more I observed nature, the more I began to see colour as one of its most sophisticated languages. It speaks of adaptation, function, and life. The closer I look, the more infinite richness I find. Colour is how I invite people to taste the world with their eyes.

Could you describe your creative process, from the first idea to the finished artwork?

My process begins with paying attention long enough for curiosity to lead the way. Whether I'm observing a fruit, an everyday object, or a material, I'm interested in what lies beyond its surface. The work grows through discovery, gradually revealing invisible structures and translating them into something we can experience. I don't create to explain what I see. I create to make visible what I couldn't see before.

Your ongoing series Slices of Life - The Time of Nature focuses on fruits and vegetables. What inspired you to explore these everyday subjects?

I've always been fascinated by the hidden complexity of the things we so often take for granted. Fruits and vegetables simply became a way of exploring something deeper. I see them as portals to explore the hidden architecture of nature and to remind us that wonder still exists inside the most ordinary things.

Vital Core - Kiwi I, Acrylic On Wood, 70 cm Diameter, 2025 © Giulia Aim

Vital Core - Onion I, Acrylic On Wood, 70 cm Diameter, 2025 © Giulia Aim

Vital Core - Lime I, Acrylic On Wood, 70 cm Diameter, 2026 © Giulia Aim

Vital Core - Orange II, Acrylic On Wood, 70 cm Diameter, 2026 © Giulia Aim

In this series, familiar organic forms begin to resemble landscapes, planets, and microscopic worlds. What do you hope viewers discover when looking closely at your paintings?

I hope viewers discover how interconnected the natural world really is. The closer we look, the more connected everything becomes. Looking closely reveals how nature speaks the same visual language across every scale. We have never been separate from it. We have simply forgotten its rhythms.

Themes such as nature, nourishment, seasonality, and transformation are central to your work. Why are these ideas important to you today?

These ideas matter to me because they make me question the way we live today. We expect everything to be available, yet we rarely experience the value of waiting. Nature reminds us that growth, nourishment and transformation cannot be separated from one another. The more I observed these rhythms, the more I realised they exist within us too. My work is an invitation to notice what has always been there, quietly shaping the way we live. The world has never lacked wonder. We've simply stopped paying attention.

You founded Arte is More, a platform connecting contemporary art, design, fashion, and storytelling. How has this experience influenced your artistic practice?

Building Arte is More (AIM) has expanded the way I think as an artist. It has exposed me to different disciplines, ideas and ways of seeing the world, constantly challenging my own perspective. That constant exchange has naturally become part of my practice, encouraging me to make unexpected connections and ask better questions. Through AIM, my practice extends beyond individual artworks into a universe where every aspect of my visual language comes together and continues to evolve.

Vital Core - Red Cabbage I (detail), Acrylic On Wood, 70cm Diameter, 2026 © Giulia Aim

You have exhibited in Italy, the UK, and the United States. How have these different cultural experiences shaped your perspective as an artist?

Living and working across different cultural contexts has been one of the greatest educations of my life. Every place has its own way of seeing, creating and experiencing art. Each culture taught me a different way of asking the same questions. More than anything, those experiences reminded me that there is never a single way of understanding the world.

Lastly, what are you currently working on, and what are your goals or dream projects for the future?

I'm continuing to expand Slices of Life - The Time of Nature, with new paintings and sculptures already in development. One of my biggest goals is to present the collection as a solo exhibition, where it comes together as a single immersive installation. At the same time, I'm developing a new body of work that grows from the same research while exploring a more experimental direction. Above all, I want to keep building a creative universe that can continue to evolve and connect with people in meaningful ways.

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