Figura Serpentinata

2023, Gregor Petrikovic

Developed in collaboration with dancers Anouk Jouanne, Isis Clunie, Alina Sakko & Ella Posti and music composer Jacob ‘NTHNL’ Rudin.

16mm digitised film
4'30"

'Figura Serpentinata' features four female dancers adopting sculptural poses that enhance their dynamism. As the film progresses, these body-sculptures peak before gracefully disintegrating onto the floor. The camera's framing and layering techniques heighten the sense of both unity and chaos as the bodies disintegrate, reflecting the dancers' interdependence in a cyclical process of breakdown and renewal. Figura Serpentinata is loosely based on the work of the late Mannerist sculptor, Giambologna, called Abduction of Sabine Woman, 1581-83, placed in Florence.

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