The Seed of Love (2025)
Created for the XV Florence Biennale – “The Sublime Essence of Light and Darkness”

The Seed of Love is a meditation on emergence — on the quiet power of something beginning to become.

Created for the XV Florence Biennale (October 2025), the work responds to this year’s theme “The Sublime Essence of Light and Darkness: Concepts of Dualism and Unity in Contemporary Art and Design”. At its heart lies a subtle inquiry: What happens at the threshold where light is born — not in opposition to darkness, but through it?

The painting emerges from a dialogue between opposing forces: bold, opaque blues and luminous transparencies; defined gestures and diffused transitions; presence and absence; silence and pulse. In the center of the composition, a pale, almost immaterial field opens up — soft whites and gentle pinks that seem to breathe rather than speak. From this quiet core, something stirs: a subtle pulse, an inner movement, a seed of becoming.

This seed is not an object. It is a force. A vibration. Its presence is felt more than seen — yet it begins to affect the world around it. The adjacent forms shift. Color responds. A vibrant yellow shape — bright, alive, reaching outward — seems to answer the silent impulse from the center, like sunlight responding to a call from within.

Rather than resolving dualities, the work allows them to coexist. It trusts the space between them — the friction, the harmony, the echo. Light is not the absence of darkness; it is its natural continuation. Unity, here, is not sameness — but relationship.

The Seed of Love does not illustrate a concept. It embodies a movement. A becoming. A presence that invites the viewer not only to look, but to feel: the subtle point where something invisible begins to change everything.