Chrysalis explores metamorphosis as both a biological phenomenon and an inner condition. Inspired by the silent intelligence of natural processes, the works inhabit the fragile threshold where one form dissolves before another can emerge.
Textile, thread, paper, organic fibres and embroidered surfaces become living membranes rather than inert materials. Built through slow, repetitive gestures, each piece preserves the traces of time, care and transformation, allowing matter itself to embody change.
The chrysalis is not approached as a symbol of completion but as a space of suspension—a place where identity remains fluid and becoming never truly ends. Growth unfolds invisibly, beneath the surface, through processes that resist immediacy and celebrate duration.
These sculptures invite a slower way of looking. They suggest that vulnerability is not the opposite of strength but one of its conditions, and that every transformation begins in a moment of quiet concealment.
Rather than representing metamorphosis, the works enact it. Materials bend, expand, fray and regenerate, echoing the rhythms through which all living systems continuously reinvent themselves.
“Chrysalis” was conceived during the resilience of the lockdowns as an embroidered intervention on metal mesh, where the rigidity of industrial material encounters the intimate, meditative gesture of hand embroidery.
The work embodies a state of transition: neither beginning nor end, but a suspended condition in which transformation takes place silently. Like a chrysalis, the installation becomes a metaphor for inner metamorphosis, suggesting that stillness is not absence of movement but the hidden preparation for change.
Thread and metal enter into dialogue, weaving together strength and vulnerability, structure and tenderness. The repetitive act of embroidery becomes a ritual of resistance, care, and contemplation, reclaiming time in a period marked by uncertainty and isolation.
“Chrysalis” speaks of resilience not as endurance alone, but as the quiet ability to regenerate. It reflects the invisible processes through which life continues to evolve, even in moments when everything appears suspended.
