People from Biella. Nine stories. Found and reported by Julia Trolp. Book presentation on Friday, the 15th of April at La Civetta Bookshop
On the first page of Gente di Biella / People from Biella, you can read “there are 46.350 people living in Biella. Everyone has his history. Nine of those are in these pages”.
Julia Trolp lived in Biella for almost one year – from Novembre 2003 to December 2004. during her stay, the artist met different people and shared a moment of their life, chatting and telling stories. Julia Trolp wanted to save the stories, and decided to dedicate a book to those pieces of biographies. Nine persons are portrayed in the book, everyone with a short story and a photographic portray by the artist. A cheese-seller, a factory worker, a photographer, a street cleaner: the reader meets these very “normal” persons, by going through the book. The artist wants to stress the value of this “normality”, showing the peculiarity of every single person.
As a city is made of the sum of its citizens, Gente di Biella / People from Biella is also the portray of the city itself. Part of the text has been translated in English.
The presentation of the book will take place in Biella, at the bookshop La Civetta, on Friday, the 15th of April.

Gente di Biella. Nove storie. Trovate e raccontate da Julia Trolp. Presentazione del libro venerdì 15 aprile, alla Libreria la Civetta >>>