Archeologia Domestica Vol.1 presents Silvia Giambrone’s research through a collection of recent works. These are made with a variety of techniques, from modified ready-mades, to engravings, scans and other reproduction techniques. These images often reveal traces, in a semiotic sense, they are the testimony of domestic objects. We are faced with perplexing juxtapositions that cause our minds to skip, oscillating...

In terms of its chemical composition, a pearl is a crystallized calcium carbonate, known as aragonite, shaped as a sphere. Its structure is given by concentric layers of calcium generated by living tissue: usually, the mantle of molluscs such as oysters, bivalves, and gastropods. Conularids are also believed to have produced pearls; these were, however, made of calcium phosphate. Etymologically, the term pearl...