Brussels Dance Studies, June 2026
Emerge, fragile gestures, from the invisible. I stroke, you follow. I squint my eyes to trace your body in fragments of my own. What future will result from these transversal, ambiguous and fugitive movements? Queer: a threshold across ends (the end of the canvas, of paint). Dancing, hinting at possibilities: transparent candor, opaque fog. The dancer enacts the gentle tension of choreographed power, effortlessly balancing spins and revolutions, jumps and falls, on the tip of a toe. Seduced, I observe the tip of my brush unravelling this spectacle of possibilities in a pocket of time, bubble destined to pop.
These new works presented in Brussels study the presence of ego and transformation of identity in performance -without performing, but through drawing, painting and sculpture. The studies take movement and stillness to point at the possibilities of traversing the event whilst being in-between. Within streams of variation and repetition, they make terms with the chaos surrounding, altering their identity through seriality. Dance is taken as a principle of all performance, and the dancer is addressed as its agent.
The works are thus pre-traces of possible performances, substitutes of present dancers and disappearing acts.
My performing has been substituted by the dandy act of finding myself in objects as bodies around me, suggesting the possibilities of stasis as precarious and delicate sculptures, still dancers.
In painting, I have looked for the emergence of the dancer as gesture visualized through the fog of optics: caressing, scratching the raw canvas -with gesso, with paint-strokes- the movement is found, brought about in the space-time of the painting, in its own universe of possibilities.
The invisible portraits (drawings) bring in the face, an identity, a reference to recognition, semblance and resemblance, person and spirit incarnated in the anonymously open, still bodies of the sculptures and paintings.
The installation is thought of as a walkthrough, a series of possible encounters, cosmically pivoting around questioned identities transiting from point to point in a myriad of unseen, unperformed and possible dances.