Valentina Bartolini & Natalia Papadopoulou - A candle from faraway

Valentina Bartolini & Natalia Papadopoulou
A candle from faraway (A view with a room series),
2025
Video loop, sound music by Lefteris Volanis,
colour pencils and oil pastels, handmade paper
from Thailand
43 × 27 cm
Edition of 25 + 5 AP

This edition is part of and the edition´s series "yours truly (working title)" for which two artist-friends create an edition with each other in mind.

Valentina Bartolini and Natalia Papadopoulou collaborated for their edition and created a combination of abstract video with hand-drawn interventions. They created a layered, immersive experience where drawing and video emerge and fade, one after the other, like a slow, unfolding revelation. Titled A Candle from Faraway, the artwork invites the visitor to contemplate. The flickering candle flame encourages us to turn inward, focusing
on the fortress of intimacy. In communicating with the flame, it is as though we are engaging in a dialogue with ourselves, expanding our consciousness and rising before the flame. This moment of elevation becomes a personal procession.