“Below the Line“ is a mixed installation.
A landscape suspended between light and silence. Tender colours, a boundary like a threshold. And below this passage, four presences keep watch, delicate, grounded, and silent.
quiet presence that invites us to observe differently.
The painting “Below the Line“ evokes a landscape that seems either to recede or to emerge.
The colours are soft, almost diaphanous: aqua, pale pink, vague white. The gaze drifts through a floating light, soothed by a horizontal line crossing the canvas, like a shoreline, a memory, or a threshold.
“Below the line“, four presences keep watch.
I shaped them as one lays down a thought. Standing beings, both delicate and grounded, arising from the same breath as the landscape. I imagine them gazing at the world they may have contributed to. They contemplate, silently.
Not to guide us, but simply to be there. To preserve memory — and what is possible. As if their silence contained the origin of the world — and its becoming.
Their irregular silhouettes, coated with engobe in mineral colours, echo the tones of the painting. They extend the gesture of painting into the material. A gentle tension settles between emptiness and presence. The whole setup becomes a suspended scene, an inhabited landscape, an inner space. A place where one stands upright, on a par with silence.
Mixed installation: painting and ceramics
Painting: acrylic, oil, dry pastel, and tarlatan on canvas
Sculptures: non-enamelled ceramics with engobe (4 pieces)
Painting dimensions: 31.5 x 94.5 po
Sculptures dimensions : between 10.2 and 13 po
Mounting: discreet brackets integrated into the lower part of the stretcher
Creation year: 2024–2025
