In Written on the Body, Michèle White expresses the human body as an unfolding terrain, wounded, marked, and gesturing. Across two distinct approaches, White invites us to consider the body as both vessel and voice, a landscape inscribed by love, time, disturbance, and resistance.
In the Written on the Body series, the body emerges from layered earth-toned wax that recalls both land and skin, cuts and scars. Ruptures, lumps, and veins evoke not only bodily tension but also the raw intensity of love, care, and grieving. These works suggest a body in flux, giving and aging, a site where intimacy and loss are equally etched.
In the Editorials series, White isolates limbs in expressive, often ambiguous gestures, moments where the body becomes both message and messenger. These fragments suggest not only emotional resonance but also political intent, the body as a site of resistance, assertion, and public address. Through posture and gesture, White shows how the body inscribes itself into social and political discourse, performing its own form of language.
The body is never neutral. It is always marked by feeling, by time, by power, and by the need to speak.
Wax, mineral pigments, glass pieces, lava stones, ashes, and other materials are used to create these works, drawing on both their physical properties and metaphorical meanings. White’s balance between abstraction and representation resists didacticism, inviting the viewer to encounter the work rather than decode it. The paintings do not illustrate bodies, they inhabit them.
By blurring the line between personal and political, inner wound and outward gesture, Written on the Body becomes both an intimate statement and a collective story, for now, for today.
Zishuo Li, Curator
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December 10 – 20, 2025
Opening Reception December 13, 2-5 pm
Closing Reception December 20th, 2-5 pm