Cement Blanche
Francesca M De Giorgio is a designer working for fashion, performing and visual arts.
Graduated in Fashion Design at Politecnico di Milano, she continued her studies at Central Saint Martins and Domus Academy. In 2014, she started to work as an experimental denimwear designer for Diesel's front line. After several experiences in fashion companies, in 2022 she started to work with Simon Waldvogel (Collettivo Treppenwitz), this collaboration represents an enlightening turning point in her journey as a designer also towards contemporary theatre and dance costume/set designer. The year after she won a national contest to participate in a training project at the Cinecittà studios organized by the Italian Association of Set and Costume Designers. She works on independent projects like collages of dyeing samples discarded by fashion companies; minimalist shapeshifter clothing pieces; masks and temporary sculptures under the name Cement Blanche, an artistic research which investigates the ambivalence of perception within interpersonal communication between two or more individuals.
(Exhibitions: “NULL ISLAND” curated by Elisabetta Eliotropio 10-16 APRIL ‘26 Roma; “Post-narrative” curated by Elisabetta Eliotropio 05-08 FEB ‘26 Bologna (Artcity); “Materiality: The language of Matter” curated by Espacio Gallery 29 JAN-02 FEB ‘26 London; “Portraits” curated by Con/temporary spaces 24-30 JAN ‘26 Torino).
Cement is mainly a binder made of limescale, clay and water. Only by adding stones and rubble, it becomes concrete. During the smoothing process the gravel remains shiny, creating an endless series of reflections, like mirrors embedded in the opaque material. The specific weight of cement is determined by clay (or this is what they say about it), the most malleable material, fragile and permeable. And the weight of mirrors? How is it counted?
Misleading heads, objects and other monsters: This is Blanche, or the contrary.
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