Wanda P Cosentino

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Sessions


Sessions is an ongoing series that began with the intention to create an intimate workspace apart from everyday life, where I could distance myself from automatic gestures. Through the activation of the body and space using breathing and sound practices, I sought to induce altered states of attention. It is from this threshold that the drawings and paintings emerge.

The repetitive gestures and drawn symbols form an abstract vocabulary created specifically for the sessions. The project is grounded in the intention to give shape to what floats, a kind of cartography of these states. Made on both sides of Japanese washi paper, what appears on one side converses with what emerges on the other, exploring the fluidity of boundaries and transitional areas.

The paper, delicate and absorbent, acts like a porous skin. It extends the duration of the session and preserves the memory of the body’s interaction with the material. The drawings are suspended in space to meet the light within the architectural body of their surroundings. This encounter with natural light reveals subtle variations in density, overlays, and a coexistence of visual layers that shift throughout the day.



An immersive environment took shape in my temporary studio in Les Lilas, where I worked for two months. I covered the entire space with emergency blankets, turning it into a reflective setting. It became a space for creation and investigation, where the dynamic relationship between my body and the surrounding space grew increasingly perceptible.











Session Waves
As the research evolved, I began to record the sessions. Drawn to what lies beyond the visible,
I searched the footage for traces of what might be present yet absent from matter. The video Light Waves captures a parallel dimension of the session, a choreography of light emerging from the relationship between my body and the space-time of that moment. To create the soundscape, I used recordings of breathwork exercises performed at the beginning of the session. This convergence of media formed a perceptual ecosystem. It became a space where different temporalities and dimensions of the session coexisted, revealing the layered architecture of a reality composed of multiple planes.





Meta Session unfolded as a natural extension of the drawing sessions and the video Light Waves, inspired by philosophical and quantum concepts. It gave shape to an immersive environment where the drawing created during the session, the video of light waves generated in the act of making, and the sound of breath recorded during the process came together. This convergence of media formed a perceptual ecosystem. It became a space where different temporalities and dimensions of the session coexisted, revealing the layered architecture of a reality composed of multiple planes.




Session Meta n.01
Installation and projection in situ - Les Lilas 2024
Emergency blanket and series of 5 paintings on Japanese paper, steel tubes, suspended nylon, and aluminum clips.