Giulia Zabarella is a visual artist based in Munich and Paris. In 2022, she graduated with a master’s in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, in the class of Prof. Olaf Nicolai. In her (choral) performances, site-specific sound and video installations, Zabarella observes how literary tropes, metaphors, cultural heritage, and linguistic misunderstandings shape perception and encounters in everyday spaces. She considers language performativity in the public and private spheres as architectural modules and theatrical mechanisms, shaped and inherited by advertising, political propaganda, and family as well as collective histories. Experimenting with how language can be inhabited, bent, and transformed by bodies and rooms, she employs the theatrical object of the choir as an aesthetic, spatial device (the tight mass, the anonymous mob) as well as an acoustic machine, capable of constructing sound axes in space. By working closely with friends’ and collaborators’ voices, mother tongues, and bodies, she questions the writing process and a fixed notion of authorship, engaging in movements of collage, reappropriation, remix, and rehearsal. Zabarella was selected by the Salta art jury to participate in the Pivô Salvador Residency in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in 2026.