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"Remnants of light"

Oil, acrylic and phosphorescent powders on canvas
100 x 80 cm
(2026)


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How “Remnants of Light” came to be

 

Remnants of Light was born from a reflection on human fragility and what remains when something breaks—within ourselves and in our relationships.

I imagined two figures locked in an embrace.

Their bodies are marked by cracks, as if experiences, wounds, and emotions had left visible scars upon their skin.

I didn’t want to represent perfection, but vulnerability:

that moment when a human being stops defending themselves and shows who they truly are.

The light emerging from the fractures is not salvific or spectacular.

It is a residual light—imperfect, almost involuntary.

It is what remains after the pain, after the loss, after the transformation.

In that embrace, the figures try not to disappear completely.

Remnants of lightis the story of that which continues to exist, even when everything seems to be cracking.

SHOWS

“Glass Wall” was a finalist in the collective exhibition in Rome, curated by the Modigliani Foundation, in January and February 2025.

The work speaks of distance and desire, of all that touches us without ever reaching us. It is the image of an existence that strains to emerge, but remains held back in a space of silence.

It is the moment you try to cross something that has no thickness, but is weighty.

I created it with those invisible barriers in mind that separate us from others, or from ourselves.

Thoughts...

Why i create blurred faces

 

My faces don’t tell who you are; they don’t seek resemblance. They tell what you feel.

They cannot be grasped: they vanish midway, dissolve into color, and remain suspended between being and getting lost.

I blur them because I want everyone to be able to recognize themselves, without feeling observed. They are bodies with cracks and dissolving souls.

For me, the blurred face is not an absence: it is an open space where the unconscious finds a voice, where every viewer can find their own emotion.

They are fragile, incomplete presences, like all of us. But for this very reason, they are full of life.

 

 

 

“I don’t create objects, but a presence.

Fragile. Alive.

If it speaks to you, it belongs to you”.

 

 

 

Glenda Safonte | Italian contemporary artist, painter and sculptor

 

 

 

 

 

 

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