Slices of Life - The Time of Nature
- Goddessarts Magazine
- Jun 2
- 3 min read
“What if nature had always been trying to speak to us?”
Italian multimedia artist Giulia Aim presents Slices of Life - The Time of Nature, a new body of work composed of over thirty circular acrylic paintings depicting enlarged cross-sections of fruits and vegetables. Developed between 2025 and 2026, the series marks the launch of an ongoing artistic research centred on nourishment, seasonality, organic transformation, and the relationship between the human body and the living world.
Using saturated colour, altered scale, and meticulous layering techniques, Giulia transforms ordinary organic subjects into immersive visual forms suspended between hyperreal detail and symbolic abstraction. Seeds resemble constellations, fibers echo vascular systems, and pulp dissolves into luminous landscapes oscillating between the microscopic and the cosmic.
Removed from their everyday function, the subjects acquire an unfamiliar presence. A kiwi becomes a living architecture. An onion recalls planetary formations. A blood orange appears almost celestial. Rather than approaching nature through traditional still life, the series invites viewers into a slower state of attention where looking itself becomes an act of reconnection.
At the centre of the collection lies a reflection on lost seasonality and the growing distance between contemporary life and natural cycles. In an era defined by acceleration and permanent availability, Slices of Life proposes a return to organic time, sensory awareness, and the intelligence embedded within living systems.
Each painting is developed through a layered process of translucent glazes that reconstruct veins, fibers, textures, and internal structures with near-hypnotic precision. Yet despite the technical realism, the works move beyond botanical representation, operating instead as suspended spaces between science, symbolism, memory, and emotional experience.
The circular format plays a central role throughout the series, simultaneously evoking the scientific specimen, the celestial body, the sacred icon, and the cyclical structure of nature itself. Through repetition, colour, and scale, the collection develops a visual language in which nourishment becomes presence, rhythm, and transformation.
With Slices of Life - The Time of Nature, Giulia Aim introduces a contemporary body of work that merges visual seduction with symbolic depth, opening a renewed dialogue between perception, nature, and the forgotten rituals of attention.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Giulia Aim (b. 1998, Rome) is an Italian multimedia artist whose work is defined by a saturated visual language, instinctive use of colour, and visually magnetic compositions that balance intensity, irony, beauty, and perceptual disorientation.
Working across painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, her practice explores the hidden intensity of forms, surfaces, and living matter through visually charged compositions that blur the boundaries between attraction, symbolism, and altered perception. Moving between organic subjects, material experimentation, and sculptural interventions, her works often transform familiar forms into immersive presences that appear simultaneously intimate, magnetic, and strangely alive.
She holds a Postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the University of the Arts London and a BA in Communication with a Minor in Entrepreneurship from John Cabot University, Rome.
After moving to London in 2020, Giulia developed her artistic practice alongside experiences within galleries, art fairs, institutions, and publishing houses, gaining direct insight into the contemporary art ecosystem and its visual culture.
In 2024, she established her first dedicated studio space, where she began developing Slices of Life - The Time of Nature, an ongoing body of work exploring nourishment, seasonality, colour, and the symbolic dimensions of the living world through enlarged and perceptually amplified organic forms.
She is the Founder and Creative Director of Arte is More (AIM - www.arteismore.com), an independent creative platform operating across contemporary art, design, fashion, and visual storytelling through editorial content, exhibitions, creative direction, collaborations, and immersive experiences.
Giulia Aim has exhibited internationally, including Rome, London, and Los Angeles.