CALLIRRHOË PRESENTS BELLY OF THE FISH BY VALENTINA BARTOLINI

Belly of the Fish, Valentina Bartolini’s solo show at Callirrhoë,
plunges you into the whale’s gut, a trembling
dream-space where meticulous dots on Nepalese paper birth hybrid
creatures, mountains that pulse like wombs, mirrors that swallow
light. Sea animals tangle with butterflies, cats dissolve into
landscapes; every form feels
half-emerged,
caught mid-metamorphosis between body and myth.
It’s pre-Surreal dream intuition made material, fragile, alive,
whispering of swallowed prophets and inner rebirths.