Michela Fabeni Art Gallery | Bas-Reliefs between Myth and Reality | Metamorphosis of the Soul and Birth of Form
- michelafabeni
- Jan 31
- 2 min read
There is a threshold where the human being stops defining itself and begins to transform. It is not a symbolic place: it is an inner experience. It is there that myth and reality cease to oppose each other and become one.
Myth does not belong to the past. It lives in the body, in deep memory, in the gesture that comes before thought. It is an ancient form of knowledge that resurfaces when the soul recognizes itself in a form that does not ask to be explained. Transformation is not an escape from reality, but its highest state: the moment in which who we are meets what we have always carried within.
Matter then becomes language. Thickness, stratification, wound and light coexist. Nothing is polished, nothing is domesticated. The gesture is direct, physical, instinctive. My personal technique was not designed or planned: it emerged spontaneously, as all necessary things do. Only later, over time, it refined itself, finding its own balance and inner discipline. Not to correct instinct, but to listen to it more deeply.
Technique is never separate from feeling. It is an extension of the body, a way of entering into contact with matter without mediation, allowing the process itself to guide the form. Every layer holds a decision, every thickness a resistance overcome. The form is not imposed: it is revealed.
The female figure moves through this space as both archetype and real presence. Strength and vulnerability, instinct and consciousness. A warrior without rhetoric, a mythic creature without artifice. She does not represent a role, but a state of being: one who has crossed conflict and carries its memory in her gaze.
History, mythology, nature and contemporary life are not separate levels. They are layers of the same body. The soul moves through them, transforms, recognizes itself. And in this transformation it does not lose its identity: it finds it.
Creating thus becomes an act of truth. Not to explain, but to leave a trace. Not to decorate, but to carve. It is a silent yet irreversible passage, in which what is invisible takes form and remains.
I create where myth and reality converge, and technique is born from the body before the mind.
Visit my website. www.michelafabeniart.com
My technique emerged spontaneously and refined itself over time, following the rhythm of the soul. Write me for information and collaborations. michelafabeni@libero.it
I do not design transformation: I allow it to happen within matter.
Michela Fabeni
Artist of the Third Millennium
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