Transient Nature | Natura Mutevole is a group exhibition bringing together the works of visual artists Dr Helen Bodycomb PhD (Australia) and Joanna Kessel MA RCA (Scotland, United Kingdom). The artists first met at Ravenna Mosaico in 2011 and immediately established a creative dialogue that spanned continents and occasional encounters in Italy. It is therefore fitting that their first major joint exhibition is being held in Ravenna. In this exhibition, both artists reflect on the arrangement of objects and combine observation with imagination. The Ravenna Contemporary Mosaic Biennial 2025, which features the works of the great modernist Marc Chagall, whose work spanned a wide range of media, provides an interesting basis for experimentation.
Transient Nature explores the fluid tensions between time, memory and imagination, simultaneously engaging with and challenging the conventions of mosaic, painting and sculpture. Through a dynamic interplay of materials – including hand-drawn glass yarns, glass enamels, latex, cement, resin, oil paint and synthetic fur – Bodycomb and Kessel have created a series of multimedia installations that explore some of the restless and changing characteristics of the life around us.
