“I believe in magic”, Bianca said. We were at a Halloween party, red light illuminating the room. Bianca was dressed as Odette, the black swan. “Magic… and synchronicities. Things happening that actually have a minimal chance to actually occur, meeting a certain person at a certain place and time.”

We pondered about the synchronicities in our lives, from life-changing to banal. “One of them”, Bianca said, “is actually connected to our planned exhibition about the Little Mermaid. After you told me about that fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, I wanted to buy a fairytale book online, but it was so expensive that I didn’t do it in the end. The next day, I walked the streets of Rome, and randomly stopped by an antique book store… and guess what: There is was, a beautiful old edition of fairytales translated to Italian. What were the chances?”

Synchronicities are somewhat magical interventions in our lives. A black swan is a very rare occurrence – what are the chances? Do they even exist?

Bianca is a painter with a backgrounds as a dancer. Her paintings invoke a sense of an otherworldly magic, yet, they take place in our reality. Dark seascapes, skies, and abstracted landscapes invoke a sense of magic. We can see her world, and through her paintings, this world can permeate our reality.

Her smallest shows a black swan as a symbol for synchronicities situated in a magical sea. The seascape is, of course, a reference to the magical world Bianca’s paintings depict. A red sky heralds the final hour before night falls. A moment where worlds meet and everything gets connected through that special illumination.