Vessels & Visions: Echoes of Form and Line
Chiara Valentini and Myunghi CHA explore the alchemical transformation of materials into meaning. Valentini’s sculptural amphorae—fragile yet potent—hold dreams, roots, and ancestral memory. CHA’s paintings, born from a rebellion against tradition, chase the elusive moment where ink and intention merge. Together, they ask: Is art a vessel or an act of liberation?
"Vessels & Visions: Echoes of Form and Line" This exhibition brings together the works of Chiara Valentini and CHA Myunghi, two artists who, though rooted in different cultural and material traditions, share a profound engagement with form, memory, and the metaphysical dimensions of art.
Chiara Valentini reanimates the ancient amphora, transforming it into a vessel of myth, dream, and corporeal presence. Her sculptures—crafted from paper, fabric, and organic materials—evoke the amphora’s primal symbolism as a container of life, memory, and the unconscious. In The Dance, the vessel becomes a site of duality, where masculine and feminine energies intertwine; in Dream, it morphs into a lantern of the subconscious, exhaling visions like smoke. Valentini’s work bridges antiquity and contemporary thought, asking: What do we carry within us? What spills forth when pressure is applied?
In contrast, CHA Myunghi’s practice emerges from a lifelong tension between tradition and rebellion. Trained in Korean ink painting yet stifled by its conventions, she forged her own path—rejecting prescribed techniques in favor of fluid, instinctive mark-making. Her abstract landscapes, rendered in sumi ink, acrylic, and charcoal, capture the ephemeral traces of consciousness. The canvas becomes a battleground where control surrenders to spontaneity, where lines dissolve and reform like fleeting thoughts. CHA’s work oscillates between the meditative and the visceral, embodying her belief that "an artist must encompass all eras and phenomena."
Together, these artists invite us to contemplate containment and release, structure and fluidity. Valentini’s amphorae hold the weight of history; CHA’s brushstrokes defy it. One artist builds vessels, the other unravels them—yet both speak to the eternal human quest to grasp the intangible.
