The Fall

“Never regret thy fall, o Icarus of the fearless flight, for the greatest tragedy of them all, is never to feel the burning light.”

Oscar Wilde

In the exhibition the Fall, Vanna Bowles has explored a new form of expression. Her usually carefully executed, detailed sculptures and drawings of birds, insects, body parts and nature, here meet an expressive and abstract expression.

In the process of working out this new form of expression, the hands and the body have been allowed to rule, and she has allowed a physical and experiential knowledge to manifest itself through doing rather than thinking.

 The exhibition can be seen as a meeting point between a form of subconscious thinking, where fragments and parts of larger wholes can be put together to form new images and stories, and a bodily examination of experienced emotions, where the materials, that can be likened to entrails, bodies parts, plants and other living things, are allowed to speak for themselves.