ABOUT
Ophelia Jacarini’s practice is driven by a deep fascination with movement and its translation into tangible form. Working across sculpture, photography, video, embroidery, and installation, she seeks to render visible what is normally unseen, the ephemeral traces of motion, the residue of gesture, the shifting boundary between presence and disappearance.
Her research began with dance, shaped by seventeen years of classical ballet training alongside her studies in Fine Arts and Fashion in Paris. This foundation instilled a sensitivity to rhythm, space, and gesture that continues to guide her practice. While initially rooted in the body, her exploration of movement expanded toward natural phenomena, technology, and the human psyche. Today, she often collaborates with dancers and performers, using motion-capture, artificial intelligence, and experimental fabrication to create databases of movement that are reinterpreted as sculptural, visual, or spatial experiences.
Unbound by medium, Jacarini allows the creative process to dictate form, whether suspended embroideries animated by wind, metallic structures that echo the meditative rhythm of water, or AI-generated extensions of human choreography. Her works frequently engage with questions of identity, consciousness, and memory, drawing from philosophy, psychology, and anthropology.
By transforming performance into object, and gesture into lasting form, Jacarini invites viewers into a dialogue with time: the tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, the visible and the invisible, the human and the machine.
