The tension between movement and stillness is as old as thought itself. What moves seems to elude us; what stands still suggests stability, yet rarely proves unchanging. Micki Chomicki Gallery invites visitors to dwell within this fragile equilibrium—where movement becomes visible through stillness, and stillness is charged with potential. Rather than illustrating this duality, three artists embody it through textile and fiber art. Their work unfolds between the tangible and the mutable, between form and deformation. So, Supple and Still doesn’t offer a fixed statement, instead it provides a snapshot within an ongoing process of inquiry—an invitation to see stillness not as an endpoint, but as an intensely charged phase within movement.

In She Isn’t Other People’s Creation, Lynn Van Hoydonck explores how identity and emotion take shape through the interplay between individual experience and collective imagery. Her work departs from what appears to be a static given—the recognizable expression of emotions—yet quickly reveals how these are in constant flux, shaped by cultural codes and visual clichés. In collaboration with performers, six basic emotions—from happiness to anger and anxiety—are reduced to physical archetypes. These take form in sculptural costumes that both fix and distort. What initially appears as a stable emotion is exposed as a constructed pose: a moment of stillness that derives meaning only through the underlying dynamics of imitation, internalization, and transformation.

With Au-delà des genres and La Création, Giuseppe Arnone presents installations in which the body never appears as a completed whole, but as something continuously reconfigured. Fragmentation and hybridity undermine any sense of stability. His figures seem to exist in a state of perpetual transition—between genders, between processes of emergence and decay. Arnone thus creates a universe in which identity cannot be fixed, but continuously reshapes itself through processes of displacement and redefinition.

In the Copains series, Jean-Marc Piron explores a more subdued yet equally charged relationship between movement and stillness. His soft, abstract sculptures appear at first to rest within themselves, yet carry an implicit tension—as if they could shift, collapse, or rearrange at any moment. Through the use of textile, leather, and suede, a tactile presence emerges that invites proximity while maintaining a certain restraint.

Supple and Still moves between extremes without seeking to reconcile them, inviting the viewer to experience stillness as an intense moment within a broader continuum of change. In that sense, the exhibition does not offer answers, but rather a point of departure—a subtle shift that sets thought in motion once again.

Giuseppe Arnone / https://www.instagram.com/giu_giusepp

Lynn Van Hoydonck / https://www.instagram.com/lynn.vanhoydonck/

Jean-Marc Piron / https://www.instagram.com/jeanmarc_piron/