I’m passionate to capture the arcane in contemporary contexts, weaving the language of Western myth, ritual and symbol through a queer lens. I employ sculpture, photography and film to trace ancestral codes embedded in bodies, landscapes, and ritual acts. Drawing from sources as diverse as Renaissance cosmology, Alchemy and Egyptian mythology, I reimagine ancient spiritual systems in a contemporary fluid paradigm, amalgamating varied symbols, techniques and media within a unified mythological framework. Archetypes, to me, are not abstract ideas but living forces in evolution, which I directly experience in the act of creation.
Across sculpture, film and photography, the practice of Giordano Cioni (b. 1987, Milan; any pronouns) explores Western myth, ritual and symbol through a queer lens. Their work has been exhibited extensively across Europe including group shows at: Inselgalerie (Berlin), Spiral Gallery (London), Palazzo Bembo (Venice) and Hunt Museum (Ireland) as well as four solo exhibitions in Berlin at tête (2020) and Organ Kritischer Kunst (2022, 2023 and 2026). Their film has been shown at Babylon as part of Berlin Short Film Festival 2026.