Pointed shoes on “marble stone”

This artwork shows two lower legs in pointe shoes, set upright on a block that evokes a marble stone. Everything hinges on the relationship between elevation and weight: the pointes speak of discipline, held posture, sustained effort, while the heavy, cracked base recalls what resists, the ground, matter, the real. The blunt cut at the top of the legs marks an intentional interruption, as if the artist had lifted a moment from dance and turned it into a sign.

The pale surface, painted and varnished on unfired ceramic, gives the ensemble an almost chalky fragility; light brings out small variations and traces of work. The “marble” retains breaks and repairs, accented with touches of gold: the accident isn’t erased, it becomes readable, and the base takes on the value of memory.

Within Still Dancing, the work reduces dance to a simple dialogue: standing upright, and holding, despite everything.