Orlando
Friday 2 October // Friday 30 October
EVENT: First Friday Opening – 6 – 9 PM
EVENT: Finissage Celebration – 6 – 10 PM
Orlando is an artistic research project inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, where transformation happens without explanation.
Orlando unfolds as a growing series of contemporary Orlandos a space for shared stories, reflection, and transformation.
“Virginia Woolf writes of centuries passing and a single day unfolding through the quiet movements of nature. On the coastline of Jersey during my residency at Arthouse Jersey, I was drawn to the overlooked fragments of cuttlefish bones the patterns etched in cliffs light shifting across rock and water as if the landscape itself breathed. These encounters asked me to slow to see with patience to let the world speak through what is often unnoticed. Nature entered into a dialogue with me, becoming part of Orlando, where the land reflects identity, transformation, the subtle flow of change.
I gathered the island’s fragments with analogue photography. Back in Rome I deconstructed these records repeating, cutting, layering cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, etchings letting patterns emerge through colour and repetition echoing tides, light, and time itself. In these rhythms, time is both constant and fleeting folding past into present. This ongoing process continues to shape my work today. “