Madeira (Portugal), 2024

A visual hymn to water as primal mother, as a territory where the body dissolves and reassembles. In this performance-based series captured through photo and video, Glez invokes the ocean as a space of suspension and memory. The figure in motion does not merely perform — she merges with the sea, her gestures echoing the organic rhythm of a world before time.

The work emerges from a desire to return to a pre-formed state, where to float is to remember. As if the body, surrendering to the pulse of the waves, could rediscover the echo of the womb: a place without gravity, without urgency, where breathing was not yet required. Dance becomes a silent rite, a vibration meant not to be seen but felt.

Here, the sea is not backdrop but presence. In every image, its texture speaks with the skin, outlines forms, dissolves edges. The model — a medium-body — inhabits that threshold between the tangible and the sacred, where movement does not represent, it summons. In her drifting, there is resistance: a refusal of weight, a yielding to current.

Created in a geography shaped by water, Dancing with the Sea becomes a space of return — not as escape, but as a way back: to origin, to dream, to that ancestral vibration that still hums beneath the skin.

Charleen Capote