Louise Giovanelli

Giovanelli’s figurative works are halted at a moment of imminent drama, at a threshold between states.  In isolation, each appears as a fragment of a narrative; placed together in dialogue they allude to archetypal and existential themes. In this work, Host, Giovanelli recreates a cropped section of Fra Angelico’s early renaissance work The Mocking of Christ, 1440. She presents a snapshot of Saint Dominic who sits in the foreground in the original; as in all Giovanelli’s figurative work, the stilled expression of the subject is enigmatic and ambiguous, simultaneously corporeal and rapturous.