Fluid Folds
RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery. Petrie Tce Brisbane
Friends - Group Exhibition
In Fluid Folds, Chrys Zantis works at the shimmering threshold where ocean meets land, where breath gathers in cloth and bubbles rise, hesitate, and release.
Drawing on Deleuze’s concept of the fold, and Hellenistic thought Zantis understands transformation as a continuous movement in which inside and outside are never fully separate. Fabric behaves like water; water behaves like thought; memory circulates through both. Change occurs not through rupture but through gentle bending, layering, and reorientation within a luminous liminal space.
Her materials embody this philosophy. Organza appears to breathe; memory wire curls like a wave gathering itself; pearls hold the slow pressure of ocean time. Zantis’ photographs of drifting veils and submerged cloth linger in this same threshold, where light loosens edges and meaning remains fluid.
Guided by intuition and synchronicity, Zantis allows materials to lead her process. The result is a choreography of breath, water, and fold in which past and present move through one another like tides. Zantis positions the fold as a sacred interval: the chrysalis of becoming, the breathing pause before emergence, and the aqueous threshold where body, memory, and world continually remake one another.