THE BODY IS THE SHADOW OF MOVEMENT
This series explores human movement through an intimate lens, observing my children at play. Based on photographs from playgrounds and everyday moments, the paintings reflect movement as a generative force: physical, emotional, and psychological. Using bold colors, diagonal cuts, and palette knives, I investigate closeness, discovery, joy, and underlying tension. The compositions oscillate between emotional directness and abstract architecture, asking how movement shapes identity, belonging, confidence — and inner calm.
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The meaning of being a mother is learning about the strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed” (Linda Wooten).
The paintings in the exhibition ‘The Body is the Shadow of Movement’ is based on photographs taken by Kupraly Lernfeld of her children playing in the garden of their home and in playgrounds. Work on them began during the Corona period, between lockdowns and isolations, when the house became a confined space. The photographs focused on movement. Kupraly Lernfeld saw the impact on both physiological and emotional development in movement, the kind that develops confidence, belonging, identity, appreciation and self-realization.