Body Without Dance

Maria Appleton’s practice materializes from ongoing research into colour and form through dyeing, weaving and printmaking. Her layered compositions of cotton, silk, and industrial fabrics unravel as chromatic in-prints, probing architectural conceptions of space and shifting optical perspectives. Her work, infused with political tensions engages with climate, economic and technological concerns while balancing presence and absence to trigger memories, dreams or physical sensations. Part of her Unperceptibles series, this work uses misspelling as a conceptual tool to explore ambiguity. The fabric’s coded complexity echoes contemporary systems of information, urban and digital. These porous, low-resolution filters, challenge perception. Body Without Dance invites movement, making the viewer an active presence in what is simultaneously invisible and ubiquitous. Her work has exhibited in Working Site, Artissima,Turin, (2024); A soft green glow in the evening red, BEIGE, Brussels, (2024); Is there yet Space for Light, Hatch, Paris, (2023) and ARCOmadrid with Galeria Foco, Madrid, (2023). Her work was published in Textile Art,Upcoming by Thames and Hudson (2025).