Brussels Dance Studies
LUCA graduation show, June 2026
I have studied the defusing of ego in performance without performing, but through drawing, painting and sculpture. Pointing at the possibilities of traversing transversality and being in-between are at the center of these delicate studies. I look to harmonise fugue from conformism, refusal of labour, questioning of my own diversity and zen protesting (tenderly and openly making terms with the chaos surrounding). In the chaos dance is taken as a principle of all performance. I search for the balancing act between movement and stillness, as between presence and absence. The works are pre-traces of my performance, substitute puppets of my presence, signatures of my absence from the ceasing of the ongoingness of labour.
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 visualised 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 points to points in a myriad of untold, unheard and perhaps impossible stories.
After all the study is a process based self-observation to try and visualise the constant transformative stream of who I am.
