Roaring in Silence


Architectures of the mind






This series emerged alongside a sustained meditation practice, through which the mind began to unfold as a spatial structure. The paintings construct fictional architectures—labyrinthine interiors that oscillate between expansion and enclosure—mapping the movement of thought, perception, and psychological tension.



Installation of Roaring in SIlence




Roaring in Silence
2013 - 2016 
Oil on canvas
Emerging from a sustained meditation practice, the paintings construct abstract, labyrinthine spaces that function as mental environments rather than physical ones. Through repetition, layering, and shifting spatial illusions, the works move between expansion and enclosure, suggesting both openness and confinement.

These imagined architectures act as sites where thought, memory, and perception circulate. Corridors, cavities, and infrastructural forms appear, yet remain placeless—resisting fixed orientation or resolution. Across the series, compositions register different psychological states, from outward expansion to compressed, enclosed systems, reflecting the instability of perception and the tension between clarity and confusion.

Drawing on the language of infrastructure—systems that regulate flow, pressure, and movement—the work approaches thought as something that circulates, repeats, and transforms within internal structures. Within the broader practice, the series marks a shift from the body toward architecture, using space as a framework for understanding consciousness and the conditions that shape it.


      








  

     















   

   





 

       

       
















 


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© Jenna Basso Pietrobon

France — Italy