Independent artist, author of 14 monographs, over a thirty-year’s quest around the human figure, Fiorio questions the interrelation between presence and vision. Here photography does not replicate “that which is seen”, it is a luminous signal disclosing that ‘there is’ which vision withholds. From 2000 to 2010, with the project The Gift, Fiorio explored the immaterial heritage of ritual expressions of the Sacred around the world. Photographs of the gift do not replicate or ‘document’ something, they summon that which is not a ‘something’, but only is in its Being. In 2009 Fiorio’s book, The Gift has been granted the High Patronage of UNESCO. Since 2010, the ongoing project Humanum,addresses the human statuary archetypein the perception of our time. Organising by polyptych-ensemble different figures of one same original statuary, Fiorio’s works unveil the transfiguration of sculptural appearance in the variation of light.

For the project Humanum, Fiorio has collaborated with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa and worked so far at the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis Museum of Athens; the Louvre Museum in Paris; the Iraq Museum of Baghdad; the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Wien; the National Archaeological Museum of Cyprus in Nicosia; the Egyptian Museum of Cairo; the Royal Commission of Al-Ula at King Saud Museum in Riyadh; the Jordan Museum of Amman; the Al-Thani Collection in Paris. Humanum has been presented for the first time at the College de France in Paris, in 2018, hosted by the European Chair of Victor’s Stoichita. The presentation of Humanumworks around the Sumerian masterpiece Lady of Warka, in collaboration with Lucio Milano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, received the Patronage of the Italian Commission of the UNESCO in 2016.

Founder and director of the international seminar of contemporary photography Reflexions Masterclass (2002-2012), Fiorio has been Faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York, (2007-2014) and is affiliated to Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. Besides magazines publications over 25 countries, Fiorio’s books have been published in France; Italy, France, Germany and Greece and had over 30 personal shows around the globe. January to May 2023, Humanum works around three masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, have been on display with three originals in Museum of Tahrir Square.

Fiorio pursue in parallel a project ongoing since 2017 around the ontogenesis of the primordial Myth according to a universal law of invariance inits the resonance with the Fundamental Research. Engaged since November 2023, in the realisation of a series of works around three masterpieces at Louvre Museum in Paris. In January 2024, Fiorio has been nominated Director of the Photography Unit of the Heritage International Institute, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.