Everything is fragile – variations

Paola Bernardelli Studio exhibition at Guildhall Taphouse Studios (Level 2, Guildhall Taphouse, Entrance via Guildhall street)

This micro-exhibition by Paola Bernardelli consists of new variations on her ongoing project Everything is fragile. Floral still-lives reveal and magnify the process of decay, becoming a metaphor for human life. These works pay homage to the still-life genre embraced by Dutch and Flemish women painters during the 17th and 18th centuries. Considered a minor art at the time, still-life allowed women artists to bypass the rigid societal barriers that restricted them from practicing life drawing and figurative painting. Inhabiting the boundary between photography and video, Bernardelli’s works attempt to reimagine and reinterpret the traditional still-life.