Movement[s] Part I

Movement versus Stillness

The dancer’s body, caught but not tamed. – Jack Gallagher

For this series, Jamain Brigitha collaborated with international choreographers and dancers like Jack Gallagher (Bodies Anonymous), Krisztina de Châtel, Nanine Linning, Emio Greco/Pieter C. Scholten, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

The work is influenced by Gilles Deleuze’s publication ‘Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation’ (2003): “What Bacon actually paints, or captures in a refrain, is the movement from a structure, which for Bacon is a field of colour, towards a Figure, along with a subsequent movement from the Figure towards the structure, which all together creates a certain tension in the painting. Finally, a contour is introduced that alters the form of both the Figure and the structure. The Figure is then contracted or dilated as it slips through a black hole, and engages in a series of becomings or ‘screaming transformations’. The Figure then returns through the contour and finally fades out to infinity (page 28-29).

On the subject of colour, Deleuze states: “”Colourism (modulation) consists not only of relations of warm and cool, of expansion and contraction, which vary in accordance with the colours considered. It also consists of regimes of colours, the relations between these regimes, and the harmonies between pure tones and broken tones. What is being called haptic vision is precisely this sense of colours.” (page 122).

Jamain Brigitha incorporated these underlying aspects in the creation of her unique artworks. Images in which dance, movement, the body, time, space and colour meet and unite in an infinite freedom of expression.

Movement[s] #01 – Into the Field of Green
Photographed at ‘No Body Is Neutral’ (2004) by Jack Gallagher (Bodies Anonymous)

Movement[s] #02 – Into the Field of Colour
Photographed at ‘No Body Is Neutral’ (2004) by Jack Gallagher (Bodies Anonymous)

Movement[s] #03 – Into the Field of Tango
Photographed at TangoTalks (2005) – René Oey and Gabriëlle Nederend

Movement[s] #04 – Into the Field of Bacon
Photographed at ‘Bacon’ (2005) by Nanine Linning

Movement[s] #05 – Into the Field of Earth
Photographed at ‘Föld’ (2006) by Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel

Movement[s] #06 – Into the Field of Water
Photographed at ‘Gemini’ (2005) by Elshout / Händeler

Movement[s] #07 – Into the Field of Expression
Photographed at ‘Hell’ (2008) Emio Greco | PC

Movement[s] #08 – Into the Field of the Body
Photographed at ‘Hell’ (2008) Emio Greco | PC

Movement[s] #09 – Into the Field of Pureness
Photographed at ‘Zero Degrees’ (2006) by Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui


Cymbolic Light Jet prints mounted on aluminium/plexiglass
70 x 100 cm (27.56 x 39.37”) or 30 x 45 cm (11.81 x 17.72”)
Editions of 8 + 1 AP

1 Installation of 25 printed banners
196 x 56,80 cm (6.43 x 1.86 ft) height each, total length 17 meters (55.77 ft)
Edition of 3