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The solo show entitled Belly of the Fish by Valentina Bartolini conceives the belly as an enclosed, transformative space. Drawing inspiration from proto-surrealist practices, Bartolini redirects attention from the external world to the unconscious, allowing shapes to surface through intuition, introspection and attentive observation. The title alludes to biblical imagery of the inner world and transformation, such as the belly of the whale in the story of Jonah.
Subtly surreal, her works evoke the sea, dreams and the womb as parallel realms of perpetual change. Recurring motifs such as mirrors, mountains and hybrid creatures alluding to plants, sea animals, cats, and butterflies evolve into organic, interspecies forms. Through this biomorphic language, bodies become fluid and unstable, suspended between animal presence and landscape, tracing processes of growth and metamorphosis.
Building upon the dreamlike, memory-infused terrains of her previous Sky Ladder series, Bartolini deepens…
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The solo show entitled Belly of the Fish by Valentina Bartolini conceives the belly as an enclosed, transformative space. Drawing inspiration from proto-surrealist practices, Bartolini redirects attention from the external world to the unconscious, allowing shapes to surface through intuition, introspection and attentive observation. The title alludes to biblical imagery of the inner world and transformation, such as the belly of the whale in the story of Jonah.
Subtly surreal, her works evoke the sea, dreams and the womb as parallel realms of perpetual change. Recurring motifs such as mirrors, mountains and hybrid creatures alluding to plants, sea animals, cats, and butterflies evolve into organic, interspecies forms. Through this biomorphic language, bodies become fluid and unstable, suspended between animal presence and landscape, tracing processes of growth and metamorphosis.
Building upon the dreamlike, memory-infused terrains of her previous Sky Ladder series, Bartolini deepens…
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