CURATORIAL NOTE
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This catalogue presents a condensed architecture of Jon Gesalaga’s current body of work.

The sequence is built as a progressive descent into the internal logic of his practice: a movement from luminosity to fracture, from form to matter, from apparition to embodiment.
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The opening images establish a threshold: the luminous structures of the preliminary sketch and the porcelain figure introduce the first fractures of the visible. From there, the catalogue advances through a series of transitions where the body enters, dissolves, resists, and re-emerges.
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The central section—Eidolon, Clay, Nigredo—forms the core of this trajectory. These works articulate the moment where the human figure abandons representation and becomes the site of pressure, ritual, and transformation. Here, the image no longer describes; it acts.
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The final pages return to silence and opacity. Epiphany and Clay (Block 2) operate as residual forms in which the body adheres to matter, and the last sketch echoes the initial threshold with a human presence now fully exposed.
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The catalogue is not a retrospective, but a map of intensities: a path through the fracture where Gesalaga’s work takes place, and where the image becomes a zone of emergence rather than closure.