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With the exhibition title that translates to “A wingflash uncovers my bodies”, Barbara Tavella unfolds a new way of reading her paintings. The mostly stretcherless and delicately painted canvases are distributed flowing and freely hanging in the exhibition space. They invite us to interact with them and to pass between them.

In order to understand what the statement in the title is all about, the artist has to take us closer to her painting process. The beat of the wings measures the time it takes for the caterpillar’s body to turn into a butterfly, like the blink of an eye. Without …