"Illuminated by the soft glow of twinkle lights, layers of shoes, jewels and beads appear both desirable and strange, humorous and uncanny, as if animated by a mysterious force in a fairy-tale realm. Sweeping across each painting, Scaccia's complex arrangements interrogate the notion of beauty and the tropes of female representation, at once questioning the human longing for objects as signifiers of identity and social roles."
"In Cake, candle, swing, flying shoe, colourful stockings. Am I not perfectly alive?, the figure dynamically flies across the space on a swing, seemingly unbridled by the excess of shimmering beads and clothes. Evoking Goya's expressive portrayals of people on a swing, as well as Fragonard's iconic painting of a female figure parting with her shoe in mid-air, the work projects a sense of joy and freedom of flight."
Bea Scaccia's paintings interweave meticulously rendered shoes, jewels, beads and costumes around female figures, creating rippling, twisting compositions illuminated by twinkle lights. Layers of adornment appear desirable and strange, humorous and uncanny, invoking fairy-tale atmospheres. The works portray moments of motion and stillness that allude to bodily shifts and the swings of mood and societal perception. Specific paintings, such as Cake, candle, swing, flying shoe, colourful stockings. Am I not perfectly alive?, depict a figure flying on a swing, balancing a cake and candle, suggesting joy, freedom, and meditation on time. Scaccia subverts conventional female roles and challenges fixations on static beauty.
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