Post-pandemic Reflections

We will never forget 2020 and the months to follow.

The pandemic forced us into lock-downs, restrictions and limitations for months.

The isolation, the closure, the forced enthusiasm of some days and the inevitable apathy of others. After the first few weeks of optimism, during which we believed that it would have ended soon, we found ourselves overwhelmed by a feeling of desolation and abandonment.

The end of the first lock-down, the attempt to return to normal on 2021, the new closures around Christmas.

Almost three years after the beginning of the nightmare, we are still not completely out of it. The perception of ourselves, our relationship with the external environment, with others. Everything has been questioned. We are now slowly recovering all of this. Getting back on the move, reconnecting body and mind, recovering harmony between us and the rest of the universe.

We are not the same and perhaps we never will be.

But we have to turn this in an opportunity.

We are now more aware than ever of all the things that we have been missing. Things that seemed obvious to us: leaving the house in the morning, breathing fresh air and contemplating the beauty of nature, meeting for a coffee with a friend, hugging our loved ones ...

In this Post-pandemic Reflections I intend to explore this recovery of the essential.

I started this exploration in fall 2020, looking at the most intimate and personal aspect of the process: the perception of one's body in space. The series [mind/body]FLOW: A reconnection with one's self is a celebration of the mind-body flow finally recovered, our body finally free to express itself moving in the space around us without constraints.

The project moves from the individual to the "outside world", our relationship with nature, social meetings, friendship and love.

Post-pandemic Reflections meant to be a historical testimony of that time when, having lost everything, we started again from the basics of knowing ourselves in relation to nature, to work, to relationships, to life.