photography, Kodak Pro Endure, matt, UV protection film, edition: 6 + 2AP
About the work:
In the series „Piercing the Mask“ Paola Telesca continues to explore body movements and focuses on the
expressive language of the Japanese dance, Butoh - the dance of the soul. She explores the variety of
„images“ displayed in this particular dance. The emotions, vibrations and tensions in the surrender to the
dance offer the artist the possibility to catch, penetrate and interpret human fears; the darker and the „grey“,
naked side to each human being. These expressions are partially serious, fearful, „grey“ and insecure, and
yet they represent beauty to her. „They are a state that constantly changes, a flow in which nothing is
constant, where two polarities seek a balance, a harmony. An internal struggle, a duality; the polarization of
black and white, of emotions and feelings that search for a balance which comes and goes ... and yet it is
never permanently there“. Contrasts here are strong, defined, hard. The surfaces dissolve themselves in fine
lines and directions. They represent for the artist the memory; the traces of an ever-changing condition. This
series is produced in collaboration with the Butoh dancer Makiko Tominaga and the saxophonist Marcel
Schmid. She finds here an artistic universe that she explores with joy. These works invite to meditation and
questioning. To this series of artwork belongs „Somewhere Inside searching for Outside“.
