Giulia Privitelli

Giulia Privitelli holds a distinction in two Master programmes: Art History (University of Malta, 2015), and Theology and the Arts (ITIA, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2021), with a research interest in the anthropological and theological value of neglected and abandoned urban spaces. She is Senior Editor of a cultural non-profit organisation, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, a course coordinator on the intersection between art and faith at the Pastoral Formation Institute (Malta, 2019–2022), a freelance tourist guide, writer (especially for visual arts exhibitions), and an active member of the Ignatian youth network Living Stones - Pietre Vive. Since September 2022, she is co-leading a formation-mission year in Amsterdam in collaboration with the Jesuits of the ELC.

Eyes to Listen, Ears to See: Re-Ordering Our Sense of Beauty

Giulia Privitelli explores our “restless search” for beauty through  Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and the tragedy of Narcissus and Echo. ‘What a queer planet!’ he thought. ‘It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have…

Le.Iva and the Point in Between

Giulia Privitelli reviews Le.Iva, a multi-media installation by Maltese artist Austin Camilleri exploring anger, grief and mortality. To grieve takes effort. At the end of a press tour of the exhibition Le.Iva | Anger is a Lazy Form of Grief, I was left with…

Creativity out of a Krisis: A Transept reflection

[EDITOR’S NOTE:  To begin our monthly Transept series, ITIA’s Giulia Privitelli presents a poignant, richly evocative reflection on the first meetings of the Transept group this year, framing this collaboration as a response to ‘crisis’. Inspired by three diverse artworks created…