Giorgio Nigra (b. 1999, Sassari) is an artist based between Venice and Berlin.
His practice spans photography, performance, and the manipulation of images, with a focus on their materiality and their capacity to generate meaning beyond representation and circulation.
Rooted in a radical political attitude shaped by his upbringing in the outskirts of Italy, far from the economic and cultural centers of the peninsula, and his involvement in the underground hardcore punk scene, his work investigates how human relations are formed within the late-capitalist paradigm of endless production and consumption, and of constant representation of social phenomena. Embracing idleness and the refusal of work as possible strategies of resistance, he explores “inoperative” gestures, such as walking, as ways of reclaiming time, space, and energy from labor, turning them into contemplative acts. His work has been presented at Spuma Space for the Arts, Sale Docks, PASE Platform and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.

He is also co-founder and curator of the multidimensional visual research
project XYZ_t.