Trance performance by Gabrielle Senza, Neko Bay, Antarctica, March 18, 2022
Gabrielle Senza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is guided by intuition, deep listening and a profound connection with living environments. The process, she states, “aids in guiding my creative journey and making amends with the ineffable past."
Her passion for engaging collaboratively with place, time, humans and nature, has led her to many far-away places and curious situations.
For several decades, she has found herself possessed by an inexplicable spiritual connection to a long, white empire-style muslin gown she had made in 1989. Mysteriously compelled to perform a number of unanticipated meditative acts while wearing the gown — such as sweeping broken egg shells into a pile, performing a walking meditation on Governor’s Island with a chair strapped to her back, floating down a river in Maine, and most recently, crawling on a glacier in Antarctica — she follows the Spirit’s lead in a protracted hypnotic state.
Gabrielle's socially engaged art practice has resulted in a wide range of ongoing creative projects that inspire, empower, and cross-pollinate diverse international audiences. These include The Long Slow Crawl (1989), The Collaborative Scroll (2001), Walk Unafraid (2003), Terra Temporalis (2011), and InVisibility Lab (2017).
Based in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, she exhibits, lectures, and performs internationally. Her work is included in corporate and private collections worldwide, as well as in the public collections of the Whitney Museum and MoMA.
www.gabriellesenza.com
@gabriellesenzastudio
