OPHELIA
JACARINI

Manifest Ephemeral explores the ephemerality of dance and the impossibility of repetition. The work questions the passage of time, memory, and the traces that movement leaves behind.

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The body of work takes shape through photography, sculptural installation, and video. A dance performance is staged in front of the camera, where the gestures of the body and the movement of fabric are translated into visual forms. These fleeting motions are further refined through artificial intelligence, removing the dancers body to only focus on the movement, here represented by the fabric shaped by the dance. 

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Through this process, the work emphasizes the unseen traces of performance and the tension between what is momentary and what endures. Manifest Ephemeral invites to rethink ou relationship to time. Surfacing the invisible residue of dance as lasting visual form is a way to bring presence to the absence of a time that is past.