SUN.CONTEMPORARY: The Shape of Stillness

Located in Pererenan, the artist-led gallery and project space SUN.CONTEMPORARY unveils its latest exhibition, The Shape of Stillness, by Bali-born artist Salvita De Corte. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, 25 November 2025, and runs until Sunday, 1 February 2026.

Set across two floors, the sleek gallery space sits behind the popular Shelter restaurant, tucked away from the main road – inviting a peaceful and contemplative viewing experience. The featured works are curated by Founder and Director Ricky Lee Gordon, an established artist himself.

The Shape of Stillness marks De Corte’s first solo exhibition, exploring the liminal space between presence and absence, where figures emerge and dissolve, their edges blurred, evoking connection, solitude, and the quiet persistence of memory. “Painting allows me to keep memories close. As if painting itself is remembering something it once knew,” says De Corte.

In this exhibition, De Corte presents a body of work rooted in connection – how we quietly encounter ourselves in moments of stillness. Here, pigment doesn’t simply rest on the surface but seeps into the canvas, much like memory over time: gentle, subtle, yet enduring.

Working between family life and moments of solitude in her studio, De Corte’s practice becomes a meditation on stillness – on what endures and what fades. Her works are created with natural pigments and acrylic, applied to both raw cotton and gessoed canvas. On raw canvas, colour seeps into the weave like a memory softening over time; on gessoed surfaces, pigment holds fast, creating a delicate tension between absorption and resistance.

Her figures, though seemingly intimate, are not portraits of anyone in particular. “They are vessels,” De Corte explains. “Sometimes a main figure stands with another behind or beside it, as if existing on different timelines. When those timelines fold, they meet exactly where we are meant to be now. Sometimes the shadow is the inner child, a quiet presence that follows, protects, and remembers when we forget.”

Bali-born and of Indonesian, German, and Indian descent, Salvita Salim De Corte grew up in a creative household with artist parents. Her artistic awakening began as an act of catharsis following her father’s passing, when she inherited his studio, brushes, and blank canvases.

Her work delves into the emotional and relational landscapes of human connection, using portraiture and the body as vessels for introspection and memory. The Shape of Stillness marks a contemplative new chapter in her evolving practice – a soulful, quiet turning point where painting becomes both remembrance and renewal.

SUN.CONTEMPORARY is open Tuesday – Sunday, 10 AM – 6 PM.            

For more information, please contact +62 822 6634 9911 or follow @sun.contemporary on Instagram for updates.

SUN.CONTEMPORARY
133b, Jl. Pantai Pererenan, Pererenan
+62 822 6634 9911
@sun.contemporary
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