Andrea Coltman
While You Were Sleeping explores the relationship between the body and the unseen structures that organise our experience of space. Set against exposed linen, solitary figures pause, bend, reach and negotiate fluorescent bands that resist a fixed reading as architecture, landscape or map. Instead, they operate as visible traces of invisible forces—social, psychological and spatial—that shape movement and perception.
The works respond to The Fold through the continual negotiation between interior and exterior. The figures are neither separate from their environment nor fully contained by it; they are caught in moments where body and space inflect one another. Gesture becomes a site of pressure, hesitation and transformation, revealing the body as something continually formed through its relationship to the world.
By reducing narrative and isolating ordinary, often overlooked moments, the paintings invite attention to the thresholds between visibility and invisibility, movement and stillness, agency and constraint. The fluorescent interventions interrupt and connect the pictorial space simultaneously, suggesting that experience is layered rather than fixed. The fold emerges not as a literal form but as a condition in which bodies, spaces and unseen systems continually bend into one another.
