Body of work composed by 1 large scale & 2 medium scale silk artworks, screen printed with natural dye.
Solo Show Exhibited at Villa Lena, Italy, Tuscany, 2022
She Transient Dance
She Transient Dance series extends my investigation into movement by placing the work in direct conversation with the environment.
The internal enquiry turned outward.
Creating across different spaces, I observed how light, air, and spatial conditions shape gesture, colour, and texture. Each environment prompted subtle variations, yet the underlying essence remained constant. Form becoming a reflection of perception itself.
The work began to articulate the symbiotic relationship between human and nature – how light shapes perception, and how perception finds its way into form.
Movement here took on an angelic quality — delicate, responsive, and attuned. The work explored the threshold between intellect and intuition. Gesture became relational, movement echoing wind and light. Fabric responding to its surroundings, revealing a delicate conversation between fluidity and structure.
Installed within transitional spaces — where interior met exterior — the pieces did not remain static; they engaged viewers in dialogue with light and space.
Surfaces shifted, shadows fell, forms changed, and perception became active. The works entered a transient exchange with their setting. Rather than occupying space, they reveal it.
This series refined the language of movement through mirroring. Environment reflected internal states, and internal state altered the way environment was perceived. Nature becomes a lens through which recognition occurs.
Clarity here emerged through relationship. Not as something found within, nor imposed from without, but as something revealed in the exchange between the two. Through attunement, a coherent resonance between body, material, and the illumination of the environment.
A question lingers at the end of this body. What is the balance between the internal and external. What comes first?
Images credits © Gina Spinelli & Janine SaulView Full Catalogue ▼
