Giovanna is an art historian, art critic, and curator, with a background in Cultural Heritage and Visual Arts from the University of Basilicata and the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Her studies and artistic research have made public space her preferred field of exploration and intervention, where “public art does not inhabit a space, but inhabits the world through space”. Her research and studies on public art focus on the rediscovery, awakening, and re-imagination of informal, non-functional, and abandoned spaces scattered throughout the urban fabric: the urban voids. She has personally coined the term “urban still life” for these spaces—ordinarily silent and motionless, yet quietly teeming with life. Throughout her career, she has also collaborated with professionals in the performing and scenic arts at MAS – Magazzino delle Arti Sceniche in Bologna. In 2021, she conceived and curated a visual and cultural journey at the Pinacoteca Provinciale di Potenza, narrating, through the collection, living testimonies of a rich cultural heritage shared by the territory. All these experiences have led her to firmly believe that public art is, for her, the home of small ideas finding shelter within the grand urban house of public space.