STATES OF BEING: THE RECLINING ARCHITECTURE OF EXISTENCE
2008 Italy
Still life assumes the posture of the body — architecture becoming organism, existence rendered horizontal.
In 2008, the psychodynamic inquiry extends into a decisive structural modulation. The vertical field that had previously staged object and subject now collapses into horizontality. The composition reclines.
In States of Being, the still life is no longer arranged — it lies down. The pictorial architecture adopts the posture of the body. Mass settles. Tension distributes laterally. Gravity becomes compositional principle.
These works introduce a subtle but profound recalibration: existence is rendered horizontal. The elevated stage gives way to the resting plane. Structure becomes corporeal; architecture assumes biological weight.
Material fragments—paper, pigment, anatomical references—remain integral. Yet the spatial logic transforms. The field elongates. Forms stretch. Stability is achieved not through balance, but through sustained distribution of pressure across a horizontal axis.
The reclining condition is not passive. It is a state of awareness. The body is present without narrative. The still life does not depict rest—it embodies duration.
Here, being is architectural. Existence is measured not vertically, but across.
Representative Works (Selection)
The works presented here exemplify the horizontal recalibration of the psychodynamic still life. In these compositions, structure reclines without surrendering tension. Material density is sustained across an extended plane, transforming the still life into a corporeal architecture—neither inert nor theatrical, but durational.
