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Dancing pictures

Many painters focused on a specific moment. A moment just before or after a particular event that affected or would come to affect the depicted person. One of the best examples of this concept is Diego Velázquez's painting "Las Meninas". But nothing in the world around us is constant. "Panta rei"-these words I had in mind when I was trying to give my works motion. In my painting I want to capture not specific moments but whole processes. In this case I focus on dance. My pictures from the latest series “Dancing Paintings” can be hung in different constellations.Changing their positions makes them move. Not all figures are possible all the time. Just like the human skeleton limits the body, the canvas doesn't permit the figures all motions.

Sophie Delest

3 Artworks curated by Sophie Delest