Of Being brings together two practices that meet at the threshold between flesh and
consciousness, body and nature. The exhibition is a meditation on existence—fragile,
embodied, and expansive—where the individual opens onto the universal and
humanity is understood as continuous with the living fabric of Earth.
Caroline Christie-Coxon advances Circle Culture as a way of seeing the
interconnection of all things. In her work, the body acts as a tool in her artmaking—
towards oneness with nature—so that awareness can be felt as a shared field. The
multiple iterations of the Fluid Loop act as a mantra — a repeated gesture of
awareness. Though each loop arises from the same conceptual centre, every iteration
is shaped by process, circumstance, and the moment of its making. This mirrors the
paradox of oneness and individuality: we are part of a single, continuous field of
existence, yet each being carries a unique expression in the moment, within that unity.
The motif stands for inclusivity, connection, and the celebration of difference. It
rejects separation — the fear-based myth that divides — and instead invites a
recognition of our shared belonging. The Fluid Loop offers a gentle reminder: we are all
variations of the same circle of life, distinct yet inseparable.
In dialog, Leonardo Dalla Torre turns to the corporeal. His portraits and figurative
fragments insist that nature is not “outside” the human but within the self—carried in
skin, breath, and memory. For Dalla Torre, physically embracing nature is both a
historical condition and a contemporary necessity. The body appears as archive and
contact zone, bearing traces of time while remaining open to metamorphosis. His
paintings ground the viewer in the palpable present, where material form and felt
awareness are inseparable.
Christie-Coxon and Dalla Torre meet on a single plane of being from opposite
directions. Christie-Coxon’s Circle Culture represents the concept of the past feeding
the present to create the future, composing a planetary field where relation is
primary—circles and soft paintings that read as soft edges and liberated forms. Dalla
Torre returns that field to the skin: portraits and fragments in which nature is carried in
flesh—memory, vulnerability, and metamorphosis held at the surface. One practice
composes relation (field), the other metabolizes relation (figure); neither is illustrative
of the other, but each explores the human condition. Together the works show body
and world as levels of consciousness, and ways of experiencing the ecology of being.