Carvalho announces the 3rd edition of its acclaimed performance series, with a commissioned, architecturally scaled installation by gallery artist, Rosalind Tallmadge, in collaboration with globally renowned Principal dancer and activist, Ingrid Silva, with Elias Re and Vinícius Freire. Tallmadge’s ten-panel tapestry installation of mirrored mica on silk, titled Pareidolia, coalesces to a faceted luminarium, refracting light and the dancers’ forms off its glimmering surfaces. Silva’s choreographic work, Echoes on the wall, will be performed on three occasions, on June 12, 18, and July 20.

Apertures to human connection, Tallmadge’s compositions of hand-cut mirrored mica – formed by thin layers of liquid silver on silk – require corporeal presence to come fully into being. The work’s illusory, cloud-like contours offer the reflections of both dancers and audience, while also obscuring them. Speaking to contemporary reflective obsessions, the installation seeks to harness a desire to re-root in a sense of self: individually, collectively – and through the gallery’s perpetual stream of light – in the phenomena of nature.

In the tradition of Light and Space Movement artists such as Mary Corse, Doug Wheeler, and Larry Bell, the installation issues transformation through physical, chemical, and elemental means. Mineral becomes glass-like, while light, air, time, and bodies are integrated into the work. Through the process of making, the silk structures began to represent totemic bodies for the artist, catalyzing an impulse to seek oneself in the suspended forms. The artist states “art as an action” as a means to counteract self-isolating and divided realities, heightened by a mounting dominance of the digital sphere in our behaviors.

While the audience lines this gallery-scaled luminarium, as viewers are pulled into the panels’ illusory wakes, the dancers are the bridge. With this collaboration, Silva expands her international reputation as one of the leading performing artists of her generation, now honing her voice as a choreographer. Silva, Re, and Freire, set their movements through the mirrored surfaces and shrouded forms – the audience tracking them through the gauzy transparencies of Tallmadge’s installation. Silva’s dance work considers the emotional architecture of the stories we build, break, and lean against, as well as their mutability. As choreography engages the inherent impermanence of Tallmadge’s installation, Silva translates the mercurial relationships between body and art object, individual and space.

Performance series are commissioned by Carvalho, New York, and curated by Director, Jennifer Carvalho. The biannual series invites both visual and dance artists to reimagine their creative process. It draws dance out of the theatre and into the collective consciousness, while bringing visual art into the realm of movement and performance—opening possibilities for both forms. Commissioned collaborations between performing and visual artists consider how disciplines are transformed through collaboration, as limitations are eclipsed, creating new intersectional approaches and total, synthesized works.